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BERWYN, Pa., Aug. 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Annovis Bio, Inc. (NYSE: ANVS) ("Annovis" or the "Company"), a clinical-stage drug platform company addressing neurodegenerative diseases, announced the appointment of Henry Hagopian III as Chief Financial Officer, effective immediately. Mr. Hagopian comes to Annovis with 30 years of finance and accounting experience, including 15 years of increasing responsibility at Organogenesis, a leading publicly-traded regenerative medicine company. The company has also announced that Jeff McGroarty has stepped away from his role as Chief Financial Officer to pursue other interests. Mr. McGroarty will assist in an orderly transition of his duties over the next several weeks.
"The company has made substantial progress and is now reaching an exciting inflection point given the advancement of buntanetap into Phase 3 clinical trials," said Maria L. Maccecchini, Ph.D., Founder, President, and CEO of Annovis. "Looking at the future of Annovis, Henry is an excellent addition to our team and will help take the company to the next level given his extensive experience in finance, accounting and strategic execution. I look forward to working closely with him to advance our mission of revolutionizing the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases."
"This is an exciting moment to be joining Annovis as it continues its mission to improve the lives of those suffering from neurodegenerative disorders," said Mr. Hagopian. "I'm excited to join this dynamic and talented team and look forward to working with the management to advance the pipeline and contribute to its success. I share the management team's passion to advance buntanetap, having experienced the devastating effects of neurodegenerative disease among my own close friends and family."
Mr. Hagopian joins Annovis from Organogenesis, a Nasdaq-listed leading regenerative medicine company, where he spent 15 years of increasing responsibility, most recently as Senior Vice President, Finance and Treasurer. In 2020, he was the company's interim Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Hagopian has an extensive background in corporate accounting, financial reporting, treasury operations, financial planning & analysis (FP&A), and investor relations.
Mr. Hagopian received both an MBA and an MS in Accounting from the Carroll Graduate School of Management at Boston College and a BS in Economics and Finance, Summa cum laude, from the Silberman College of Business at Farleigh Dickinson University.
About Annovis Bio, Inc.
Headquartered in Berwyn, Pennsylvania, Annovis Bio, Inc. is a clinical-stage, drug platform company developing transformative therapies that treat neurodegenerative disorders such as Alzheimer's disease (AD), Parkinson's disease (PD) and other chronic and acute neurodegenerative diseases. The Company believes that it is the only company developing a drug that inhibits more than one neurotoxic protein, improves the information highway of the nerve cell, known as axonal transport, reduces inflammation and protects nerve cells from dying in chronic and acute neurodegeneration. Annovis conducted two Phase 2 studies: one in AD patients and one in both AD and PD patients. In the AD/PD study, buntanetap showed improvements in cognition and memory in AD as well as body and brain function in PD patients.
For more information on Annovis Bio, please visit the Company's website www.annovisbio.com and follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter.
Forward-Looking Statements
Statements in this press release contain "forward-looking statements" that are subject to substantial risks and uncertainties. Forward-looking statements contained in this press release may be identified by the use of words such as "anticipate," "expect," "believe," "will," "may," "should," "estimate," "project," "outlook," "forecast" or other similar words, and include, without limitation, statements regarding the timing, effectiveness, and anticipated results of buntanetap clinical trials. Forward-looking statements are based on Annovis Bio, Inc.'s current expectations and are subject to inherent uncertainties, risks and assumptions that are difficult to predict. Further, certain forward-looking statements are based on assumptions as to future events that may not prove to be accurate. These and other risks and uncertainties are described more fully in the section titled "Risk Factors" in the Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2021, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Forward-looking statements contained in this announcement are made as of this date, and Annovis Bio, Inc. undertakes no duty to update such information except as required under applicable law.
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ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — A Turkish court on Monday released pop star Gulsen from jail but placed her on house arrest as she awaits trial on charges of “inciting hatred and enmity” for a joke she made about Turkey’s religious schools.
Last week, the 46-year-old singer and songwriter, whose full name is Gulsen Colakoglu, was taken away from her home in Istanbul for questioning, and ordered arrested and jailed pending a trial. Her arrest sparked outrage on social media and deepened concerns about the Turkish judiciary, whose independence has been questioned by opposition parties.
The charges were based on a joke the singer made during an April concert, where she quipped that one of her musicians’ “perversion” stemmed from attending a religious school.
Acting on a request submitted by Gulsen’s lawyer, an Istanbul court released her from jail on the condition that she not leave her home, the state-run Anadolu Agency reported. The court cited the fact that the singer has a small child to look after, is not a flight risk and was unlikely to tamper with evidence, the agency said.
Gulsen’s lawyer, Emek Emre, said he welcomed the fact that Gulsen would “spend the night at her own home with her child,” but said he would also seek her release from house arrest.
Government critics said the singer’s arrest was an effort by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to consolidate support from his religious and conservative supporters ahead of an election next year.
The singer had previously become a target in Islamic circles due to her revealing stage outfits and for unfurling an LGBTQ flag at a concert. A video of the singer’s comment on religious schools began circulating on social media recently, with a hashtag calling for her arrest.
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A gunman who killed two people and injured five others -- including two police officers -- in Phoenix Sunday was armed with a semi-automatic rifle and wearing tactical gear, according to police.
The shooter, who police said appears to have died by suicide, was also found with several magazines, incendiary devices, a gas mask and helmet, the Phoenix Police Department said in a news release, adding surveillance footage shows the gunman throwing a Molotov cocktail at a restaurant window, though it failed to ignite.
The suspect has yet to be positively identified, police said, and authorities have not named the victims. Of the two killed, one was an adult man and the other an adult woman, the release said. Both police officers suffered non-life-threatening injuries, as did three other bystanders, all of whom are adult men.
One of the officers remains hospitalized, but the other injured victims have since been released.
Phoenix officers responded to a call about shots fired in an area near several businesses along West Deer Valley Road Sunday evening, around 8:30 p.m. local time, the news release said. As officers arrived, the shooter "immediately opened fire on several fully marked" patrol vehicles, leaving four "riddled with bullets."
One officer was shot in the shoulder while the other was struck by shrapnel, the release said. The former managed to exit his vehicle and fire toward the suspect before other officers helped remove him from the scene so he could receive medical attention. More officers evacuated businesses in the area, the release said, taking bystanders to safety. But at some point during the shooting, the three others bystanders were wounded.
The early investigation indicates the "shooting spree" began at a local motel, where surveillance video shows the gunman leaving a room before opening fire, the release said.
"The suspect is seen firing his rifle into the motel then turning the rifle on a car pulling into the parking lot," it said, killing two people inside. The shooter is then seen throwing the Molotov cocktail around the time officers arrived, per police.
According to the surveillance footage, the gunman is seen "making his way through the parking lot and then falling to the ground." While it appears the gunman took his own life, it will be up to the Maricopa County Medical Examiner to determine an official manner of death, police said.
The shooting remains under investigation, and authorities aim to search a nearby motel room but are waiting for a search warrant, the release said.
The incident was just one of several shootings across the country this weekend, including one at a grocery store in Bend, Oregon, where authorities said a gunman with an AR-15 style rifle killed two people and injured a third. In Houston, another gunman set fire to a building and then shot the people who fled, killing three and injuring two, the police chief said. Other shootings took place at the Coney Island boardwalk in New York; a Sikh Temple in Stockton, California; and outside a hotel in Indianapolis.
Phoenix Police Chief Jeri Williams condemned the shooting in a news conference late Sunday night, calling it "another example of gun violence in our community."
"How many more officers have to be shot? How many more community members have to be killed before those in our community take a stand? This is not a Phoenix police issue; this is a community issue," Williams said. "If not now, when?"
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'They'll go above and beyond': American Legion Convention job fair promotes opportunities for veterans
Marine Corps. veteran Reginald Jones walked from table to table checking out the employers that attended the job fair hosted by the American Legion Convention.
“I’d like to see transparency with an employer,” Jones said. “No crazy backroom deals that are going to affect the little guys.”
Jones served in the Marines from 1984 to 1988 and for the last 17 years has been a longshoreman at Port Milwaukee.
Jones was seeing what openings are available and will possibly stay in the shipping and logistics field.
Roughly 40 different employers attended the job fair with the American Legion Convention late last week looking for potential employees.
“Military personnel generally have a strong sense of camaraderie amongst themselves and it’s like steel sharpening steel,” Jones said. “We know each other’s strengths, weaknesses but we all have the same mission — to get it done.”
The convention in downtown Milwaukee closes Wednesday.
A $7,500 signing bonus
Chandra Plears is a talent acquisition specialist for Sysco a food production company.
“We would love to have more people from our military in our supervisory positions,” Plears said. “We are definitely looking for more military people to work at Sysco.”
Plears said the company has several dozen jobs open for different departments from transportation to the warehouse to “food selectors” and was offering a $7,500 signing bonus for employees.
“They definitely last longer than your usual applicant,” Plears said. “I think it’s because of the training that they’ve had... They know how to do the work and go about their day.”
Army veteran Joel Harris almost worked for Amazon but a miscommunication caused his start-date to get canceled.
“I’m trying to reapply to Amazon and I may try to get on the food service team,” Harris said. “I was a dishwasher at the UW hospital and the VA hospital. I did a little food prep.”
Harris is unemployed and, like Jones, was seeing what options were available.
“I haven’t been to one of these in a long time,” Harris said about the job fair.
Harris talked with officials with the Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development who were pushing their apprenticeship programs.
“They got (apprenticeships) for different areas depending on what you want to do,” Harris said adding he might try to see which apprenticeships he’s most interested in. “It could be something to keep me busy instead of sitting around the house all the time. I’ll see where it takes me.”
Kelly El-Yaagoubi, human resources business partner at Holtger Bros., Inc., which works in telecommunications infrastructure, said their company is looking for people who “want to do hands-outdoor work all year round.”
“There’s so much work available, I’m not sure I have a limit (on job openings), which is awesome that the company has so much available,” El-Yaagoubi said.
Like Sysco, Holtger Bros. offers signing bonuses for some positions, but they also pay workers to get their commercial drivers license through the company.
El-Yaagoubi said veterans offer a higher level of consistency of work.
“Veterans tend to come with a very high level of discipline,” El-Yaagoubi said. “They’re going to be there day in and day out regardless of the conditions or what’s going on. They have such great training that can be applicable in so many ways and probably the biggest thing is their leadership that they come with.”
But while there seems to be openings at nearly every company in every field, those who work with veterans understand some of the problems they face with finding and maintaining employment.
Veteran employment issues
Lisa Harmon works for the Center for Veterans Issues in Milwaukee which helps homeless veterans or those who are at risk of being homeless.
Harmon was there to get more information that the Center for Veterans Issues could use to help their veterans get a job and to know what openings are available.
Harmon said transportation to work has become a major issue for the veterans they serve and even prevents them from getting jobs in certain areas of southeastern Wisconsin because they can’t get to the job.
“Some of them don’t have cars,” Harmon said. “We do provide transportation but if they’re on the bus, some buses don’t go to certain places and areas.”
And some have issues stemming from their time in the military.
“They may get the job but they’re dealing with PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder),” Harmon said. “Sometimes they might not keep (the job) long because of their issues. So we do get a lot of them that come back and we try to help them again.”
Harmon said the Center for Veterans Issues helps roughly 60 veterans per month with jobs.
Beverly Fitch served in the Army from 1990 to 2020 and now is the third district commander for the American Legion in Chicago. She’s also a employment transitional manager for Operation Job Ready Veteran.
Fitch said some companies could pay veterans better.
“I think (companies) lowball a lot of veterans with their starting salary and they get discouraged,” Fitch said. “And especially the younger veterans. That’s what makes them jump from one job to the next, someone offering $1.50 more, ‘I’ll go work here.’ If on the front end, they would offer more money that would entice a lot of veterans based on their skills and not always lowballing them.”
Angela Baskin, who also served in the Army from 1987 to 2005 and now works at the Edward J. Hines Jr. VA Hospital in Illinois, concurred with Fitch.
“Those salaries, compared to the civilian world and with us and the VA, there is a big difference in that salary range,” Baskin said, adding increased wages would be helpful. “A lot of people retire out of the military, and they are at a higher ranking, so being able to be comparable to that would be helpful when soldiers are transitioning to the civilian world to where salaries are comparable to being able to sustain that same lifestyle coming off of active duty.”
Fitch said companies that hire veterans receive workers that are fast learners, disciplined and dedicated
“You take care of your veteran, your veteran will take care of you,” Fitch said. “You take care of your employees who are veterans then they’re going to do a lot for you. They’ll go above and beyond.” | https://www.jsonline.com/story/money/2022/08/29/american-legion-convention-job-fair-connects-veterans-employers/7884642001/ | 2022-08-29T20:31:45Z | https://www.jsonline.com/story/money/2022/08/29/american-legion-convention-job-fair-connects-veterans-employers/7884642001/ | true |
UPDATE 1-Traders see stock market volatility lingering as Wall Street fear gauge perks up
By Saqib Iqbal Ahmed
NEW YORK, Aug 29 (Reuters) - Traders in the U.S. equity options market appear to be betting that stocks, which turned volatile last week following the Federal Reserve's warning on continued policy tightening, will remain choppy over at least the next couple of months.
The volatility index, or VIX, was 0.33 points higher at 25.89, after rising to a more than 6-week high of 27.67, earlier in the session.
Fed Chair Jerome Powell warned on Friday that the U.S. central bank would raise rates as high as needed to restrict growth and keep them there "for some time" as it fights to control inflation.
The options-based gauge had dipped to a 4-month low earlier in August but rising worries about the stock market being vulnerable to the Fed's aggressive campaign of interest rate hikes has helped lift the index in recent sessions.
On Monday, VIX options volume stood at 478,000 contracts, or 1.3 times what is usual, according to options analytics firm Trade Alert data. One trade in particular stood out due to its large size. It appeared to involve the sale of 151,500 VIX October 19th puts at the 20 strike.
"This sale expects the VIX to remain over 20 through the October expiry," Joe Tigay, portfolio manager at Equity Armor Investments, said.
The VIX's long-term median stands at 17.7 and a VIX above 20 points to a slightly elevated expectation for market gyrations.
While the VIX has picked up from a week ago, the current level points more to an expectation for choppy markets than outright panic, Michael Purves, chief executive of Tallbacken Capital, said.
As we get into September, a seasonally weak time for U.S. stocks, investors looking to pick up more options protection could potentially drive the VIX higher, Purves said.
Meanwhile, the EURO STOXX 50 Volatility VSTOXX, the VIX's European equivalent, rose 1.8 points to finish at a near 6-week high of 28.46. (Reporting by Saqib Iqbal Ahmed; additional reporting by Samuel Indyk in London; editing by John O'Donnell and Nick Macfie) | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/reuters/article-11157969/Traders-stock-market-volatility-lingering-Wall-Street-fear-gauge-perks-up.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | 2022-08-29T20:32:53Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/reuters/article-11157969/Traders-stock-market-volatility-lingering-Wall-Street-fear-gauge-perks-up.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | false |
Wu ends China's 63-year wait for men's Grand Slam match win
Aug 29 (Reuters) - Qualifier Wu Yibing gave China reason to cheer when he became the first man from the country in 63 years to win a men's Grand Slam match after he beat Nikoloz Basilashvili 6-3 6-4 6-0 in the first round of the U.S. Open on Monday.
Wu, who came through three qualifying matches, beat the 31st seed Basilashvili to walk in the footsteps of Fu Chi Mei, who overcame Ron Barnes in five sets in the first round of the 1959 Wimbledon Championships.
The 22-year-old Wu has come into the U.S. Open in a rich vein of form having won two ATP Challenger titles back-to-back while he has also seen a steep rise in the rankings, moving from 1,869 in March to a career-high 174 now.
He was the world's number one junior and no stranger to winning at Flushing Meadows after clinching the boys' singles and doubles titles in 2017 to become the first Chinese male to win a Grand Slam title of any kind.
But it has not been plain sailing for the Chinese prodigy, however, as he did not play from March 2019 to January 2022 due to injuries to his elbow -- which required surgery -- back, shoulder and wrist.
"I don't really like to talk about those injuries in too (much) detail because every player has injuries," Wu had told the ATP website.
"The mental strength that you have to go through the pain is part of the game."
Wu was almost joined in the second round by compatriot and Chinese number one Zhang Zhizhen but the 25-year-old was beaten by Tim van Rijthoven, who saved seven match points in the third set to seal an improbable 3-6 6-7(4) 7-6(9) 6-1 6-4 victory.
But Wu has hope they can both do well to keep China's flag flying high.
"We are both pushing Chinese men's tennis levels and we're still young... I think we're going to get to the Top 100," he added. (Reporting by Rohith Nair in Bengaluru; editing by Pritha Sarkar) | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/reuters/article-11157991/Wu-ends-Chinas-63-year-wait-mens-Grand-Slam-match-win.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | 2022-08-29T20:33:19Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/reuters/article-11157991/Wu-ends-Chinas-63-year-wait-mens-Grand-Slam-match-win.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | false |
LAWRENCE, Mass., Aug. 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The five hundred unionized nurses of Lawrence General Hospital (LGH), who are represented by the Massachusetts Nurses Association (MNA), overwhelmingly voted in favor of ratifying their new three-year contract on August 25.
The ratification comes after 14 months of contract negotiations, 12 of which included a federal mediator. The tentative agreement for the now-ratified contract was reached in the early morning hours of July 28, just hours ahead of a planned informational picket by the nurses that was then called off.
The RNs, who have worked tirelessly to care for the people of Greater Lawrence through the two-plus years of the pandemic — often at great personal risk and with limited resources — have long been aware of the unique challenges facing both the hospital and its surrounding community. Lawrence had the distinction of having one of the highest rates of COVID-19 throughout the pandemic, a scenario that was further complicated by the fact that its residents earn, on average, far below the state's median household income and often struggle with access to basic resources as a result.
LGH nurses, with support from the MNA, have repeatedly pointed out to hospital administrators, local community leaders, and state and federal elected officials that "every single social predictor affecting health outcomes points to the need for maximum healthcare funding and resources to be directed to the greater Lawrence area."
"We talk forever about social determinates of health, and of lifting up immigrant gateway communities, and the public health crisis affecting people of color," said MNA co-chairperson and RN Laurie Spheekas. "We talk. But when it comes to doing, why does LGH remain in such constant and desperate need of federal and state funding? It must change."
"To all the government officials who have been struggling with us to direct the funding this hospital and community need, thank you," added Spheekas. "For those who have not yet joined us, please get on board. It's the only way to help and protect the people of this vibrant and important city."
The new agreement includes numerous workplace enhancements and improvements, including:
Staffing Improvements
Charge nurses will not have a patient assignment in the ICU and on the medical/surgical and telemetry units during the day and evening shifts. In addition, charge nurses will have no more than three patients during the night shifts. This is expected to significantly improve patient care conditions at Lawrence General as it will allow charge nurses to coordinate the overall needs of patients and nurses, as well as the workflow on each individual floor/unit. It will also allow the charge nurses to assist colleagues with more complex cases, while also picking up patient assignments should staff become overburdened.
Wages that Will Improve Nurse Recruitment and Retention
- For regular RNs, the elimination of a 20-year "tenure requirement" that previously stalled members on the wage scale at Step 19.
- Retroactive pay
- Over the three-year contract, regular nurses will see wage improvements of between 5% and 6.5% depending on their step placement. Per diem nurses will also see wage increases of up to 6.5%, with a marked improvement to the lower portion of that scale in the hopes that it will help recruit and retain newer nurses to the hospital.
Health Insurance
- Access to the health insurance program for part-time nurses working at least 20 hours per week
- Expansion of some "Tier 1" services which will provide nurses with more healthcare options/choices
- Preservation of the plans existing costs and benefits through 2024
The newly ratified contract will run through September 30, 2024.
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ANTANANARIVO, Madagascar (AP) — At least 11 people were killed in Madagascar when police opened fire on a mob demanding that officials turn over to them four suspects held for allegedly kidnapping a child with albinism and killing the mother.
A crowd of about 300 to 400 angry residents gathered at the police station demanding the release of the four suspects so the crowd could deal with them. Police refused and fired tear gas to disperse the crowd. When the mob kept advancing on the station, police opened fire.
“The gendarmes tried everything to avoid a confrontation or violence. They set up a security perimeter around the gendarmerie barracks and they told the crowd that we could talk to prevent bloodshed,” Gen. Andry Rakotondrazaka, commander of the national gendarmerie, said later Monday.
He said many of those in the crowd carried large machetes, other weapons with blades and sticks. When they threw stones at the police, the police opened fire, Rakotondrazaka said.
He said the killings are being investigated.
But the deputy of Ikongo district, Jean Brunelle Razafintsiandraofa, when reached by telephone said that he thought the protesters were not armed.
Madagascar’s President Andry Rajoelina in a post on Facebook said he was sad to hear the news of that people were killed. He appealed for calm and confirmed the incident would be investigated.
More than a dozen kidnappings, assaults and murders of people with albinism have been reported in the past two years in various parts of Madagascar, according to figures published by UNICEF in March 2022.
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Lubbock area high school volleyball schedule for week of Aug. 29
August 30
Coronado at Canyon Randall, 6:30 p.m.
Estacado at Friona, 6 p.m.
Monterey at Tascosa, 6 p.m.
Seminole at Brownfield, 6 p.m.
Levelland at Andrews, 6 p.m.
Odessa High at Lubbock High, 6 p.m.
Southcrest at Idalou, 6 p.m.
Snyder at Colorado City, 6 p.m.
Kingdom Prep at Shallowater, 6 p.m.
Dumas at Plainview, 6 p.m.
Talkington at Olton, 6 p.m.
Forsan at Ropes, 4:30 p.m.
Littlefield vs. Forsan at Ropes, 5:40 p.m.
Littlefield at Ropes, 6:30 p.m.
Lubbock Christian at All Saints, 6 p.m.
September 2
San Angelo Central at Monterey, 4:30 p.m.
Amarillo High at Monterey, 7:30 p.m.
Lubbock High at Midland Legacy, 5 p.m.
Abilene High at Snyder, 5 p.m.
Plainview at Canyon Randall, 6 p.m.
Ropes at Kermit, 4 p.m.
Amarillo Tascosa at Frenship, 6 p.m.
Tahoka at Kingdom Prep, 6 p.m.
Plano Tournament (Trinity Christian)
September 3
Monahans at Levelland, 11 a.m.
Coronado vs. Monahans at Levelland, 12:30 p.m.
Coronado at Levelland, 2 p.m.
Estacado at Seminole, 11 a.m.
Denver City at Idalou, 11 a.m.
Talkington at Idalou, noon
Plains at Lubbock Christian, 1 p.m.
Brownfield at Pecos, noon
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United Credit takes next step toward becoming premier end-to-end financing platform for borrowers and businesses
Company's technology acts as a gateway to multiple financing options for consumers
IRVINE, Calif., Aug. 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- United Medical Credit and United National Credit, trusted leaders in the medical and retail financing industry, are now United Credit.
Building off the equity and trust the company has in the financial technology space, this new name captures their vision for the future: To become the premier end-to-end financing platform for all borrowers and businesses.
"This expanded company front combines the power and reach of our United Medical Credit and United National Credit divisions," said Matthew Libman, Founder and President, United Credit. "Together, our expertise in healthcare and retail loans will allow us to serve even more consumers and merchants."
Since the company's inception in 2011, it has focused on helping customers secure the financing they need for goods and services. Thanks to their proprietary waterfall system, United Credit is a gateway to multiple financing options for consumers.
United Credit will retain its stronghold in specialty healthcare while adding an expanded focus on retail business.
"Our company was founded more than 10 years ago to help more people pay for the healthcare and products they need," said Libman. "While our name is changing, our commitment to providing a personalized, human touch to both consumers and business growth will never change. We're honored to be strong partners with lenders, businesses, and consumers, and we are ready to grow and evolve together into the future."
To learn more about United Credit, visit www.unitedcredit.com.
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Through our lending partner network, we offer consumers access to more financing options, more opportunities for approvals, and more peace of mind to pursue the purchases they need.
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OMAHA, Neb. (KMTV) — The Douglas County Health Department (DCHD) on Monday reported 474 new positive COVID-19 tests were received since Thursday’s report. The number of positive cases since March of 2020 now totals 167,166.
The case numbers reported do not include at-home tests. The county health department still encourages Douglas County residents to report their at-home test results because health officials do review them.
No new COVID-19-related death certificates were received by DCHD since Thursday's report. The number of COVID-19-related deaths in Douglas County during the pandemic remains at 1,166.
The Omaha Metropolitan Healthcare Coalition — which encompasses Douglas, Sarpy, Saunders, Dodge, and Washington counties in Nebraska, plus hospitals in Council Bluffs and Missouri Valley, Iowa — releases updated COVID-19 case counts and a hospital occupancy report to the Douglas County Health Department on Mondays and Thursdays. The overall numbers include both COVID-19 patients and hospitalized patients for all other illnesses and injuries unless otherwise noted.
According to the most recent local hospital update received by DCHD Sunday:
- There were 145 individuals hospitalized with COVID-19 including eight pediatric cases.
- Twenty-one adults were receiving ICU-level care.
- There were no additional adult COVID-19 people of interest waiting for test results.
- Six people who were confirmed or suspected of having COVID-19 were on a ventilator.
- Medical and surgical beds were occupied at an 83% occupancy rate with 236 staffed beds available.
- Adult ICU beds were occupied at an 84% rate with 47 staffed beds available.
- Pediatric ICU beds were at 89% of capacity with 15 beds available.
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California will face a prolonged heat wave, forecasters warn
The California heat wave will start in the south and spread northward
California is facing a prolonged late-summer heat wave this week, with widespread triple-digit temperatures starting in the south and spreading northward, the National Weather Service said Monday.
Excessive heat watches will go into effect Wednesday morning and remain in effect through Sunday evening in a large swath of Southern California, including much of the normally temperate coastline, forecasters said.
WET WEATHER STRETCHES FROM TEXAS THROUGH MISSISSIPPI VALLEY
Temperatures were predicted to top 100 degrees in many valley and mountain locations.
"This heat may be record breaking and will likely produce a very high heat illness risk," the Los Angeles-area weather office wrote.
The torrid conditions will be caused by high pressure that was already pushing into the state and making it difficult for onshore flow of marine air.
"These trends are forecast to continue and will likely set up (a) prolonged and likely dangerous heat event," the office said.
The heat wave will expand into Northern California later in the week.
OREGON GOVERNOR DECLARES STATEWIDE EMERGENCY AS WILDFIRE SPREADS
Temperatures in the Sacramento Valley could range as high as 112 on Sunday and Monday.
"Be cautious about planning outdoor activities for the holiday weekend!" the San Francisco Bay Area weather office wrote. | https://www.foxnews.com/us/california-face-prolonged-heat-wave-forecasters-warn | 2022-08-29T20:39:22Z | https://www.foxnews.com/us/california-face-prolonged-heat-wave-forecasters-warn | false |
(The Hill) – The Major League Baseball Players Association (MLBPA) announced on Monday that it is launching a campaign to unionize Minor League Baseball players.
“Minor Leaguers represent our game’s future and deserve wages and working conditions that befit elite athletes who entertain millions of baseball fans nationwide,” MLBPA Executive Director Tony Clark said in a statement.
“They’re an important part of our fraternity, and we want to help them achieve their goals both on and off the field,” he said.
MLBPA’s campaign, reported earlier by ESPN, garnered the support of Advocates for Minor Leaguers, a nonprofit that sought to bring attention to minor league players’ working conditions and wages since early 2020.
Advocates for Minor Leaguers said it will suspend its day-to-day operations until further notice, as each of its staff members resigned to accept a new role at the MLBPA.
“We are thrilled by this development and have no doubt that joining the MLBPA is the best possible outcome for every Minor League player,” the group said in a statement.
The Hill has reached out to the MLB for comment.
Working conditions and wages for players in the minor leagues have garnered attention among lawmakers in recent months as MLB owners in late 2021 voted unanimously to begin a lockout after a contract with MLBPA expired for unionized Major League players.
Soon after the lockout ended in March, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) introduced a bill that targeted the league’s antitrust exemption.
In late June, the Senate Judiciary Committee sent a letter to the MLB requesting more information about the league’s antitrust exemption on its minor league players and teams.
“We are grateful to the many people who have spoken up to demand better treatment for Minor Leaguers over the past two years,” Advocates for Minor Leaguers said in its statement.
“Without their courage, passion and advocacy, none of this would have been possible,” the statement continued. “Though there is much work left to be done, one thing is clear: better days lie ahead for Minor League baseball players.” | https://www.wane.com/sports/mlb-players-association-starts-campaign-to-unionize-minor-league-baseball-players/ | 2022-08-29T20:40:11Z | https://www.wane.com/sports/mlb-players-association-starts-campaign-to-unionize-minor-league-baseball-players/ | false |
Pennsylvania man accused of strangling woman during road rage incident in Wildwood, police say
NORTH WILDWOOD, N.J. - A Pennsylvania man turned himself in after police say he strangled a woman during a road rage incident in Wildwood earlier this month.
Authorities say on Aug. 20, 49-year-old Christopher Krier was driving erratically and tailgating another vehicle near the area of 13th and New Jersey avenues.
The victim, according to police, rolled down her window and commented on Krier's dangerous driving and mentioned there being children in the area.
Police say both Krier and the victim pulled over and a Krier attacked the victim, strangling her, which caused a bystander to step in.
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Krier, a Bucks County resident, fled the scene immediately following the incident and turned himself in several days later. He has been charged with second-degree aggravated assault
In a press released, the North Wildwood Police Department reminded motorists about the dangers of road rage incidents.
"We advise the public to contact the police department to report aggressive driving, rather than take things into their own hands," the department wrote. | https://www.fox29.com/news/pennsylvania-man-accused-of-strangling-woman-during-road-rage-incident-in-wildwood-police-say | 2022-08-29T20:40:27Z | https://www.fox29.com/news/pennsylvania-man-accused-of-strangling-woman-during-road-rage-incident-in-wildwood-police-say | true |
WFO MIDLAND/ODESSA Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Tuesday, August 30, 2022
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AREAL FLOOD WATCH
URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Flood Watch
National Weather Service Midland/Odessa TX
150 PM CDT Mon Aug 29 2022
...FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH TUESDAY EVENING...
The Flood Watch continues for
* Portions of southeast New Mexico and Texas, including the
following areas, in southeast New Mexico, Central Lea County,
Eddy County Plains, Guadalupe Mountains of Eddy County,
Northern Lea County, and Southern Lea County. In Texas,
Andrews, Borden, Central Brewster County, Chinati Mountains,
Chisos Basin, Crane, Davis Mountains, Davis Mountains
Foothills, Dawson, Eastern Culberson County, Ector, Gaines,
Glasscock, Guadalupe Mountains Above 7000 Feet, Guadalupe and
Delaware Mountains, Howard, Loving, Lower Brewster County,
Marfa Plateau, Martin, Midland, Mitchell, Pecos, Presidio
Valley, Reagan, Reeves County Plains, Scurry, Upton, Van Horn
and Highway 54 Corridor, Ward, and Winkler.
* Through Tuesday evening
* WHEN...From this afternoon through Tuesday afternoon.
* IMPACTS...Excessive runoff may result in flooding of rivers,
creeks, streams, and other low-lying and flood-prone
locations. Flooding may occur in poor drainage and urban
areas. Area creeks and streams are running high and could
flood with more heavy rain.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...
- Showers and thunderstorms will produce heavy rainfall. 1 to 3
inches with locally higher amounts possible.
- http://www.weather.gov/safety/flood
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
You should monitor later forecasts and be prepared to take action
should Flash Flood Warnings be issued.
...FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT THROUGH TUESDAY EVENING...
The National Weather Service in Midland/Odessa has expanded the
* Flood Watch to include a portion of southwest Texas, including
the following area, Terrell.
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Retailers are challenged with already higher employee turnover rates compared to many industries. Worker shortages and higher demands from existing workers will stress the retail industry as it braces for a challenging holiday hiring season. While job applications remain high, retail jobs in physical stores will be tough to fill since many job seekers are looking for remote work, higher salaries and more benefits. The rise of quiet quitting will impact the engagement levels of existing staff.
U.S. adults seeking new jobs
According to Career Builders’ 2022 Survey data, seven in ten employed adults in the U.S. are currently engaged in a job search, with 62% expressing interest in moving to an entirely new industry/field. Many of these employed job seekers are passively conducting searches by casually looking for jobs or accepting invitations to speak to recruiters about open positions.
The National Retail Federation (NRF) predicts that retail sales for 2022 will grow by 6 to 8% over 2021, with its data showing retail sales were up 7% year-over-year for the first six months of the year. Holiday selling is a crucial time for many retailers and they will be making plans to hire workers as early as September to meet the sales projections. But workers’ attitudes about their jobs have changed; their commitment to their employers has waned since the pandemic, making it tough for retailers to hire and retain workers in store locations.
Remote work is not an option for retail workers in stores
Adding to the retail worker dilemma is the fact that, coming off the pandemic, many employees want to work remotely, which is not conducive to a retail environment for physical stores where 85% of retail sales are transacted. Kristin Kelley, Chief marketing officer of CareerBuilder, said in an interview, “COVID and the pandemic brought an entirely new way of working that is not going away; People value the time saved by commuting and being able to work from home.” For many companies, remote work can allow hiring the best applicants from around the world, but this doesn’t translate to a successful physical store work environment.
Employment in the retail trade increased by 22,000 in July and is expected to increase this year's fourth quarter (October through December) significantly. Most retailers put holiday hiring plans together and begin the process as early as September. Last year, the retail sector planned to hire between 500,000 to 665,000 employees for the holiday season. With retail sales projected to be 6-8% higher than last year, the number of holiday openings is expected to increase. Kelley said, “We anticipate a very active hiring landscape ahead of the holiday season as employers seek to fill roles across all industries. Retail workers will need to staff cash registers, warehouse workers will sort through and ship packages, transportation workers will deliver an influx of online orders and many other roles will come into play.”
Quiet quitting gains momentum
The latest form of disengagement among workers is a phenomenon known as quiet quitting. While this has nothing to do with actually quitting, it can lead to employees actually quitting if gone unchecked by employers. Some describe quiet quitting as putting in the least amount of work to achieve work objectives without going above and beyond. In contrast, others may describe it as simply setting strict boundaries with employers or supervisors to maintain a healthier life-work balance. For workers in retail stores, this may mean sticking to job specifications, including only working scheduled hours.
Retail workers in the physical stores working directly with customers may find that creating such boundaries can limit their ability to creatively problem solve customer issues, demonstrate empowerment when making decisions and, quite frankly, get promoted. The retail sector has recognized and rewarded front-line employees who go above and beyond by putting them in management positions.
With that said, there is nothing wrong with employees wanting to stay at their current jobs as long as expectations are clear from both employees and employers. For workers who are burnt out and use quiet quitting to cope with a stressful work environment, they may find that this will eventually lead to their quitting the job unless employers are willing to discover and address challenging work environments with initiatives that promote and foster better working conditions.
Kelley discussed that the definition of quiet quitting could vary slightly, but they have found that while it means people are doing less work, it could result from setting boundaries for more of a work-life balance. “Workers are taking a step back by finding periods throughout the day to disconnect – for many; it’s to improve their work efficiency and relieve work stress or pressure.” Kelley agrees that for employers, it provides an opportunity to enhance workplace culture, whether a yoga hour or coffee chats, to reset and boost employee morale.
For some major successful retailers, the employees that are highly motivated and deeply engaged fuel an already robust service culture by taking steps above their job descriptions to satisfy and serve customers. Nordstrom
A holiday season with service gaps
As retailers specifically look at plans to build up holiday staff in stores, it will be a challenge to staff stores with holiday employees that are eager to learn and willing to help, going above and beyond. Stores that pride themselves on excellent customer service may be challenged to continue a service culture that builds loyalty, considering the current factors influencing worker attitudes towards their jobs.
A tight labor market and a shift in worker attitudes will likely make holiday hiring for retailers challenging, resulting in service gaps across the industry during the peak selling period. | https://www.forbes.com/sites/shelleykohan/2022/08/29/remote-work-quiet-quitting-will-make-holiday-hiring-for-retailers-difficult/ | 2022-08-29T20:45:42Z | https://www.forbes.com/sites/shelleykohan/2022/08/29/remote-work-quiet-quitting-will-make-holiday-hiring-for-retailers-difficult/ | true |
KYIV (AP) - A U.N. nuclear watchdog team set off on an urgent mission Monday to safeguard the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia atomic power plant at the heart of fighting in Ukraine, a long-awaited trip that the world hopes will help avoid a radioactive catastrophe.
The stakes couldn't be higher for the International Atomic Energy Agency experts who will visit the plant in a country where the 1986 Chernobyl disaster spewed radiation throughout the region, shocking the world and intensifying a global push away from nuclear energy.
“Without an exaggeration, this mission will be the hardest in the history of IAEA,” Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said.
Underscoring the urgency, Ukraine and Russia again accused each other of shelling the wider region around the nuclear power plant, Europe's largest, which was briefly knocked offline last week. The dangers are so high that officials have begun handing out anti-radiation iodine tablets to nearby residents.
To avoid a disaster, IAEA Director-General Rafael Grossi has sought access for months to the Zaporizhzhia plant, which Russian forces have occupied since the early days of the six-month-old war. Ukrainian nuclear workers have operated the plant the whole time.
“The day has come,” Grossi tweeted Monday, adding that the Vienna-based IAEA's “Support and Assistance Mission ... is now on its way.”
Ukraine's Foreign Ministry spokesman said the team, which Grossi heads, is scheduled to arrive in Kyiv on Monday. In April, Grossi had headed an IAEA mission to Chernobyl, which Russian forces occupied earlier in the war.
The IAEA said that its team will “undertake urgent safeguards activities,” assess damage, determine the functionality of the plant's safety and security systems and evaluate the control room staff's working conditions.
Ukraine's nuclear energy agency, Energoatom, warned Monday of Russian attempts to cover up their military use of the plant.
“The occupiers, preparing for the arrival of the IAEA mission, increased pressure on the personnel ... to prevent them from disclosing evidence of the occupiers' crimes at the plant and its use as a military base,” Energoatom said, adding that four plant workers were wounded in Russian shelling of the city where they live.
Ukraine accused Russia of new rocket and artillery strikes at or near the plant, intensifying fears that the fighting could cause a massive radiation leak. So far, radiation levels at the facility, which has six reactors, have been reported to be normal.
Ukraine has alleged that Russia is essentially holding the plant hostage, storing weapons there and launching attacks from around it, while Moscow accuses Ukraine of recklessly firing on the facility.
World leaders have called on the Russians to demilitarize the plant. Satellite images provided by Maxar Technologies on Monday showed armored personnel carriers on a road near the reactors, damage to a building's roof also near the reactors, and brushfires burning nearby.
Ukraine reported more Russian shelling in Nikopol, the city across the Dnieper River from the nuclear power plant, with one person killed and five wounded. The city has been hit by relentless shelling for weeks. In Enerhodar, just a few kilometers from the plant, the city's Ukrainian mayor, Dmytro Orlov, blamed Russian shelling for wounding at least 10 residents.
Kuleba, Ukraine's foreign minister, said in Stockholm that he expects the IAEA mission to produce “a clear statement of facts, of violation of all nuclear, of nuclear safety protocols.” He added, “We know that Russia is putting not only Ukraine, but also the entire world at threat at the risk of nuclear accident.”
In Moscow, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Russia will ensure security of the IAEA mission and called on other countries to “raise pressure on the Ukrainian side to force it to stop threatening the European continent by shelling the territory of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant and surrounding areas.”
Over the weekend, Energoatom painted an ominous picture of the threats at the plant by issuing a map forecasting where radiation could spread.
Elsewhere on the battlefield, the Ukraine military claimed it had breached Russia's first line of defense near Kherson just north of the Crimea, the peninsula that Russia annexed from Ukraine in 2014. Such an advance would represent a strategic breakthrough - if confirmed. Kherson is the biggest Ukrainian city that the Russians now occupy, and reports about Ukrainian forces preparing for a counteroffensive in the region have circulated for weeks.
For its part, Russia's Defense Ministry said its forces had inflicted heavy personnel and military equipment losses on Ukrainian troops trying to attack in three directions in Ukraine's southern Kherson and Mykoaiv regions, the state news agency Tass reported.
Residents reported explosions Monday at a Kherson-area bridge over the Dnieper River that is a critical Russian supply line, and Russian news reports spoke of air defense systems activating repeatedly in the city, with nighttime explosions in the sky Monday night.
Russian-installed officials, citing Ukrainian rocket strikes, announced the evacuation of residents of nearby Nova Kakhovka - a city that Kyiv's forces frequently target - from their workplaces to bomb shelters on Monday. In another Kherson region city, Berislav, Russian news agencies reported that Ukrainian shelling had damaged a church, a school and other buildings.
But in a war rife with claims and counterclaims that are hard to verify independently, the Moscow-appointed regional leader of Crimea, Sergei Aksyonov, dismissed the Ukrainian assertion of an offensive in the Kherson region as false. He said Ukrainian forces have suffered heavy losses in the area. And Ukraine's presidential adviser, Mykhailo Podolyak, cautioned against “super-sensational announcements” about a counteroffensive.
In the eastern Donetsk region, eight civilians were reported killed and seven wounded. Russian forces struck the cities of Sloviansk and Kostyantynivka overnight and the region's Ukrainian governor, Pavlo Kyrylenko, urged residents to evacuate immediately.
Andrew Katell contributed to this report from New York. | https://www.cp24.com/world/un-agency-to-inspect-ukraine-nuclear-plant-in-urgent-mission-1.6046720 | 2022-08-29T20:47:32Z | https://www.cp24.com/world/un-agency-to-inspect-ukraine-nuclear-plant-in-urgent-mission-1.6046720 | false |
Atlanta prosecutor: Gang targeted celebrities, influencers
ATLANTA (AP) — A prosecutor on Monday announced a sprawling indictment targeting members of what she said is a violent street gang that has been targeting the Atlanta area homes of famous athletes, entertainers and others who flaunt expensive possessions on social media.
Singer Mariah Carey, Marlo Hampton of “The Real Housewives of Atlanta,” Atlanta United player Brad Guzan and the Atlanta Falcons’ Calvin Ridley all had their homes broken into, the indictment says. The 220-count indictment was filed Aug. 22 and charges 26 people, most of whom are accused of violating Georgia’s anti-gang and racketeering laws.
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis said the crimes alleged in the indictment — carjacking, kidnapping, armed robbery, shootings, home invasions — were committed by members of the Drug Rich gang, which she said began to emerge in 2016 in a neighboring county. In addition to the celebrity targets, social media influencers were also victimized in home invasions and burglaries, Willis said.
“What they do is target people who show their wealth on social media,” she said. “So I do have a message for the public: Where it is kind of fun to put your things on social media and show off, unfortunately these gangs are becoming more savvy, more sophisticated in the way that they target you.”
But Willis also had a message for the alleged gang members: “If you thought Fulton was a good county to bring your crime to, to bring your violence to, you are wrong and you are going suffer consequences and today is the start of some of those consequences.”
Willis said the indictment, filed last week, represented a collaboration between different law enforcement agencies working together. Cracking down on gangs is a priority for Willis, and she said she intends to pursue tough penalties for people involved with violent gang activity.
“I am not going to negotiate with gang members. I am not going to allow pleas,” she said. “We are going to find you, we are going to convict you and we’re going to send you to the prison for the rest of your days, and I’m not apologizing for that.”
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SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Texas Democratic gubernatorial nominee Beto O’Rourke said Sunday that he had cleared his campaign schedule after receiving treatment at a San Antonio hospital for an unspecified bacterial infection.
In a statement tweeted Sunday by his campaign, O’Rourke said he sought treatment at Methodist Hospital in San Antonio after feeling ill Friday.
Intravenous antibiotic infusions improved his symptoms, O’Rourke said.
“While my symptoms have improved, I will be resting at home in El Paso in accordance with the doctors’ recommendations,” he said. “I am sorry to have had to postpone events because of this, but (I) promise to be back on the road as soon as I am able.”
O’Rourke continues to trail Republican Gov. Greg Abbott in opinion polls before the Nov. 8 general elections. | https://www.ksn.com/top-stories/ap-top-headlines/ap-illness-interrupts-orourke-campaign-for-texas-governor/ | 2022-08-29T20:47:46Z | https://www.ksn.com/top-stories/ap-top-headlines/ap-illness-interrupts-orourke-campaign-for-texas-governor/ | false |
A light therapy mask is a good choice for beauty aficionados who like to try at-home devices
At-home beauty devices have been growing in popularity over the past few years, and light therapy masks are no exception. Because they provide therapeutic illumination from the comfort of home, many people have turned to them to improve common skin concerns such as blemishes and fine lines.
While you aren’t likely to achieve the professional-level results of in-office treatments that correct skin concerns, there is a chance that your skin will benefit from using a light therapy mask. To help you make an informed purchase, we’ve compiled information along with top-selling masks for your consideration.
How do light therapy masks work?
Light therapy has been used in the fields of dermatology and plastic surgery for years to improve the appearance, texture and firmness of skin. Powered by infrared lights that are designed to treat skin effectively and gently, this therapy works by penetrating the skin to promote healing, collagen production and cell regeneration.
Light therapy mask lights
Light therapy masks emit both red and blue LED light that penetrates the skin. While the red lights reduce inflammation and redness, stimulate collagen, tighten skin and minimize the appearance of fine lines, blue lights treat blemishes and acne by killing bacteria that aggravate such skin imperfections. Most masks have three modes, which allow you to use red or blue lights or a combination of both.
Red and blue lights are the most effective and studied LED lights that are used for professional skincare treatments and in-home light therapy devices and masks. However, some masks offer additional lights such as yellow, green, purple and various hues of blue. While the effectiveness of these light colors have not been studied like their blue and red counterparts, mask manufacturers that incorporate them in their devices suggest that they promote blood circulation, lymph metabolism and more.
At-home light therapy devices, such as light therapy masks, harness light technology for convenient in-home treatments. Although not as effective as the light therapy treatments you’d receive in an office setting by a healthcare professional, noticeable results are possible when a quality mask is used as directed.
How to use a light therapy mask
Another selling point of light therapy masks is ease-of-use. Simply cleanse your face, put on the mask, power it on and use for the length of time suggested by the manufacturer. Keep in mind that the length of time and frequency of use varies depending on the mask and manufacturer.
Most light therapy masks have straps that are optional during use. They can be tightened so the wearer can do other activities during treatment. However, the straps aren’t necessary if the mask is worn while lying back and relaxing.
Light therapy masks are rechargeable. Once fully charged, they are ready to be disconnected from the charging cable and used for treatment.
Concerns associated with light therapy masks
If you are thinking about trying a light therapy mask, you’ll be pleased to know that they are generally safe when used as recommended. They are also much more convenient and affordable than professional treatments that require one or more office visits. However, there are few concerns to consider to help you decide if one of this type of device is right for you.
- They can be pricey. Reputable brands can cost several hundreds of dollars, but provide the peace of mind of being made by a trusted company.
- Results aren’t guaranteed. Some users may experience notable results, while others have minimal to no noticeable changes in their skin.
- Some have a poor fit. They may not fit the shape of the face, or the straps may be difficult to secure.
- Directions must be followed. All quality light therapy masks come with instructions. Following them closely will improve the likelihood of noticeable results and safety during use.
Best light therapy masks
Dr. Dennis Gross DRx SpectraLite Dpl FaceWare Pro Light Therapy Mask
Made by a trusted skincare company, the FaceWare Pro produces red and blue light for targeting a variety of skin imperfections. It’s shaped to fit facial curves for optimal comfort during treatments. Although one of the more expensive options, it’s a quality mask with user-friendly features. Sold by Amazon and Sephora
In addition to red and blue lights, this mask emits green, yellow, purple, light blue and white lights that the company claims to offer numerous skin-perfecting benefits that include improved circulation and reduced redness. It comes with a remote with easy-to-navigate controls. Sold by Amazon
Comfortable and easy to use, this mask delivers red and blue light for numerous skin improvements. It also emits red, green, purple, yellow and cyan lights for addressing a variety of concerns. Sold by Amazon
Aphrona Moonlight 3-Color LED Facial Mask
This light fights acne, improves skin tone and minimizes lines and other imperfections with blue, red and green lights. The design fits the face nicely, which makes it comfortable to wear. Sold by Amazon
Solaris Laboratories NY LED Light Therapy Silicone Mask
The flexible silicone material of this mask stands out in terms of comfort, and also makes it easy to clean. It emits blue and red light to treat acne, signs of aging and more. We like that it’s backed by a one-year warranty. Sold by Macy’s
With seven different light hues, this therapeutic mask addresses numerous skin concerns. It also illuminates blue and red for treating lines, inflammation and breakouts. Sold by Amazon
Pure Daily Care Luma LED Light Therapy Mask
This light therapy mask includes blue and red lights in addition to five other hues that work together to soothe redness, calm inflammation, stimulate collagen and reduce the signs of aging. It comes with an easy-to-use controller. Sold by Amazon
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Plans for four flats in grounds of Kirkcaldy Mosque withdrawn
A bid to build four flats at Kirkcaldy Central Mosque has been halted.
By Allan Crow
Monday, 29th August 2022, 9:48 am
Planning permission had been sought for the development from Fife Council.
It was confirmed this week that the application, submitted by Mohammed Naeem, chairman of the mosque’s board, had been withdrawn.
The plan envisaged the flats being built near the old entrance of the ongoing development in Cumbrae Terrace.
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The board wanted to house the Masjid’s two Imams in addition to renting the other two as an additional income for the place of worship.
As a registered charity any income made from renting the properties would have gone towards the completion of the mosque. | https://www.fifetoday.co.uk/news/people/plans-for-four-flats-in-grounds-of-kirkcaldy-mosque-withdrawn-3698470 | 2022-08-29T20:50:44Z | https://www.fifetoday.co.uk/news/people/plans-for-four-flats-in-grounds-of-kirkcaldy-mosque-withdrawn-3698470 | false |
In one of the biggest upsets on the opening day of US Open 2022, World No 124 and qualifier Daria Snigur of Ukraine took out the 7th seed Simona Halep in a pulsating women's singles first-round match. The World No. 7 was beaten 2-6, 6-0, 4-6 in an hour and 40 minutes at the Louis Amstrong Stadium.
Daria Snigur showcased nerves of steel in her Grand Slam main draw debut to pick her first win on the WTA tour. The Ukrainian made it special with her father watching on in awe and shock as she converted her 4th match point and progressed to the 2nd round in New York on Monday, August 29.
Take it in, Daria Snigur!
— US Open Tennis (@usopen) August 29, 2022
What a moment pic.twitter.com/Of6TV1MDjt
Daria Snigur did not go away despite having been bageled in the second set. She broke Halep twice in the decider and was up 5-1. However, nerves set in for the 20-year-old who struggled to close out the match with Halep raising her game. Halep faced as many as 2 match points at 3-5 but she saved them both, the first one with a stunning cross-court backhand winner.
It looked as if Halep would ride the momentum and take the match deeper when she led 30-0 in the 10th game of the deciding set but she was let down by a set of unforced errors. It was a forgettable outing for Halep who hit as may as 30 unforced errors.
Simona, a 2-time Grand Slam champion, was not able to compete at the net and struggled with her second serve percentage.
Daria used her powerful forehand returns to good effect to put pressure on Simona and make her experienced opponent commit those unforced errors.
Simona's fine run on the tour in the latter half of the season comes to a disappointing end as she exited the US Open in the first round for the 4th time in her career and the first time since 2018.
Simona had been in fine form in the lead-up to the US Open as she won the WTA 1000 title in Toronto earlier in August, ousting the likes of Coco Gauff and Jessica Pegula. She had reached the semi-final of Wimbledon, showing signs of a return to peak form.
The Romanian, who won the French Open and Wimbledon women's singles crown in 2018 and 2019 respectively, had a torrid time dealing with injuries in 2021 as she was forced to pull out French Open, Wimbledon and the Tokyo Olympics due to a calf injury. Halep also suffered a knee injury after the US Open last year and failed to reach the final stages of the Australian Open and French Open earlier this year.
However, Simona turned it around at Wimbledon after having joined hands with former coach of Serena Williams, Patrick Mouratoglou earlier this year.
Nonetheless, the defeat in New York on Monday is a big letdown from Simona, who was looking good to stitch a series of consistent runs in Grand Slams. | https://www.indiatoday.in/sports/tennis/story/us-open-2022-daria-snigur-vs-simona-halep-ukrainian-qualifier-shock-win-1994164-2022-08-30 | 2022-08-29T20:54:06Z | https://www.indiatoday.in/sports/tennis/story/us-open-2022-daria-snigur-vs-simona-halep-ukrainian-qualifier-shock-win-1994164-2022-08-30 | false |
(The Hill) – The Major League Baseball Players Association (MLBPA) announced on Monday that it is launching a campaign to unionize Minor League Baseball players.
“Minor Leaguers represent our game’s future and deserve wages and working conditions that befit elite athletes who entertain millions of baseball fans nationwide,” MLBPA Executive Director Tony Clark said in a statement.
“They’re an important part of our fraternity, and we want to help them achieve their goals both on and off the field,” he said.
MLBPA’s campaign, reported earlier by ESPN, garnered the support of Advocates for Minor Leaguers, a nonprofit that sought to bring attention to minor league players’ working conditions and wages since early 2020.
Advocates for Minor Leaguers said it will suspend its day-to-day operations until further notice, as each of its staff members resigned to accept a new role at the MLBPA.
“We are thrilled by this development and have no doubt that joining the MLBPA is the best possible outcome for every Minor League player,” the group said in a statement.
The Hill has reached out to the MLB for comment.
Working conditions and wages for players in the minor leagues have garnered attention among lawmakers in recent months as MLB owners in late 2021 voted unanimously to begin a lockout after a contract with MLBPA expired for unionized Major League players.
Soon after the lockout ended in March, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) introduced a bill that targeted the league’s antitrust exemption.
In late June, the Senate Judiciary Committee sent a letter to the MLB requesting more information about the league’s antitrust exemption on its minor league players and teams.
“We are grateful to the many people who have spoken up to demand better treatment for Minor Leaguers over the past two years,” Advocates for Minor Leaguers said in its statement.
“Without their courage, passion and advocacy, none of this would have been possible,” the statement continued. “Though there is much work left to be done, one thing is clear: better days lie ahead for Minor League baseball players.” | https://cbs4indy.com/news/national-world/mlb-players-association-starts-campaign-to-unionize-minor-league-baseball-players/ | 2022-08-29T20:59:39Z | https://cbs4indy.com/news/national-world/mlb-players-association-starts-campaign-to-unionize-minor-league-baseball-players/ | false |
WFO EL PASO Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Monday, August 29, 2022
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AREAL FLOOD ADVISORY
Flood Advisory
National Weather Service El Paso Tx/Santa Teresa NM
239 PM MDT Mon Aug 29 2022
...FLOOD ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 545 PM MDT THIS AFTERNOON...
* WHAT...Arroyo and small stream flooding caused by excessive
rainfall is expected.
* WHERE...A portion of western Texas, including the following
county, Hudspeth.
* WHEN...Until 545 PM MDT.
* IMPACTS...Minor flooding in low-lying and poor drainage areas.
Dangerous flows over low-water crossings.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...
- At 239 PM MDT, Doppler radar indicated heavy rain due to
thunderstorms. This will cause arroyo and small stream
flooding. Between 0.5 and 1 inch of rain has fallen.
- Additional rainfall of up to 0.5 to 1 inch is expected over
the area. This additional rain will result in minor flooding.
- Some locations that will experience flooding include...
Cornudas and Cornudas Mountains.
- http://www.weather.gov/safety/flood
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Excessive runoff from heavy rainfall will cause flooding of small
creeks and streams, country roads, farmland, and other low lying
spots.
Remain alert for flooding even in locations not receiving rain.
Arroyos, streams, and rivers can become raging killer currents in a
matter of minutes, even from distant rainfall.
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Billionaire bodybuilder Jeff Bezos has a cheat day with a Big Mac and gives a shout out to McDonald's - his first employer
- Jeff Bezos worked at McDonald's when he was a high school student in Miami
- Bezos, 58, has shared that he flipped burgers on the grill in the 1980s
- On Sunday, he shared a photo of himself eating a McDonald's burger
- In the tweet, Bezos gave a shoutout to the fast food chain
- 'My first job,' Bezos tweeted. 'And still the same great burger. Happy Sunday!'
- Bezos now ranks among the world's wealthiest individuals, with an estimated fortune of $153.8 billion
Billionaire Jeff Bezos gave a shoutout to McDonald's - his first employer - while indulging in the fast food over the weekend.
The Amazon founder, 58, shared a photo on Twitter of himself eating a burger with a satisfied look on his face.
'My first job,' Bezos tweeted. 'And still the same great burger. Happy Sunday!'
Bezos, who now ranks among the world's wealthiest individuals, with an estimated fortune of $153.8 billion, according to Forbes, used to work at McDonald's flipping burgers when he was a high school student.
Bezos said in a previous interview that his time working the grill at McDonald's as a high school student in the 1980s taught him that customer service was 'really hard.'
The billionaire, who stepped down as Amazon's CEO in 2021, continues to serve as the company's executive chairman.
Jeff Bezos, 58, who ranks among the world's wealthiest individuals, shared a photo over the weekend of himself eating a burger from McDonald's - his first employer
'I was a cook. They wouldn't let me anywhere near the customers,' Bezos quipped. 'This was my acned-teenager stage. They were like, 'Hmm, why don't you work in the back?'
Bezos talked about his first job as a cook at McDonald's in Miami during a 2018 interview with Fast Company.
'One of the great gifts I got from that job is that I can crack eggs with one hand,' Bezos said. 'My favorite shift was Saturday morning. The first thing I would do is get a big bowl and crack 300 eggs into it.'
Bezos, pictured here at 16, worked at McDonald's flipping burgers when he was a high school student in Miami in the 1980s, a job he says taught him that customer service was 'really hard'
In 1980, a 16yo Jeff Bezos began working the grill at McDonald's.
— Trung Phan (@TrungTPhan) April 5, 2021
Instead of offering teen Bezos the CEO job, McDonalds made the greatest corporate gaffe ever and let him go.
Bezos ($185B) can now buy McDonald's ($170B), with enough money left over to give every American $1m. pic.twitter.com/YjQZb6ebvG
'One of the things that's really fun about working at McDonald's is to get really fast at all of this stuff,' he continued.
'See how many eggs you can crack in a period of time and still not get any shell in them.'
Bezos said his advice for young people is to 'always keep your eyes open for lessons to learn at any gig, even it's just flipping burgers.'
'You can learn responsibility in any job, if you take it seriously,' he said in the book, 'Golden Opportunity: Remarkable Careers That Began at McDonald's.'
'You learn a lot as a teenager working at McDonald's,' he said. 'It's different from what you learn in school. Don't underestimate the value of that!'
Bezos, pictured here as a teenager, said his advice for young people is to 'always keep your eyes open for lessons to learn at any gig, even it's just flipping burgers' | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11157935/Billionaire-bodybuilder-Jeff-Bezos-gives-shout-McDonalds-employer.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | 2022-08-29T21:03:17Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11157935/Billionaire-bodybuilder-Jeff-Bezos-gives-shout-McDonalds-employer.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | true |
Fresh Start will use this grant to help at-risk women train for non-traditional occupations to become self-sufficient, while providing partner employers a source of qualified diverse talent
PHOENIX, Aug. 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The US Department of Labor announced that Fresh Start Women's Foundation is one of five nationwide recipients and the first and only Arizona-based organization to receive its Women in Apprenticeship and Nontraditional Occupations (WANTO) grant. Fresh Start will be awarded $542,358 and will use this money to support women in pursuing sustainable careers in non-traditional fields, such as technology and the trades.
In Maricopa County, statistics show that 13.6% of women overall and 39% of single moms live in poverty. Careers in IT/Technology and Construction/Related Trades have the potential for high wages and career advancement, but women are historically underrepresented in these jobs. When women secure and maintain these nontraditional careers, their financial trajectories can change dramatically. For example, Fresh Start recently graduated 12 women from one of its non-traditional occupational training programs (Semi-conductor Manufacturing) in partnership with Intel and Mesa Community College. The average annual income of these graduates when they started the program was $28,000 and their average starting wage after job placement was $48,000.
"We are grateful to the Women's Bureau and the Employment and Training Administration at the US Department of Labor (DOL) for awarding Fresh Start the funding to expedite our work in empowering underserved and at-risk women toward success in technology and the trades," Fresh Start CEO and President Kim McWaters said. "We know that when you lift a woman out of poverty by giving her access to skills and training that allow her to earn self-sustainable wages, you change her life, her children, and generations to come. We appreciate the support of employers and educators who are partnering with us in this life-changing work and encourage others in the community to join us."
The grant, administered by the DOL's Women's Bureau and Employment and Training Administration, will provide Fresh Start the opportunity to expand enrollment in technology and trades programs. In fiscal year 2022, the nonprofit served over 3,100 women, including 140 women through this new program. They aim to connect 400 women to the program's workforce training opportunities this fiscal year.
"As part of our effort to build an economy that works for everyone, the department has applied a worker-centered approach to address barriers for women entering apprenticeship programs and non-traditional occupations," said Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh.
WANTO grants support women's participation in fields in which they have traditionally been underrepresented, such as finance, technology, construction, manufacturing, energy and transportation. A portion of the grants will also provide support services such as childcare, transportation, tuition, and work-related gear.
Within this program, Fresh Start is continually looking for new education and business partners to provide Fresh Start women access to education and employment opportunities that will allow them to earn sustainable wages and transcend the cycle of poverty. For more information on Fresh Start please visit www.freshstartwomen.org.
Fresh Start is celebrating 30 years of supporting women in Arizona. It's our mission to provide access and resources that help women achieve self-sufficiency and use their strength to thrive. Our ultimate vision is to create unlimited opportunities for women. Fresh Start serves over 3,000 women annually who are 18 years and older. 86% are mothers, 60% are single mothers and 64% are women of color. These women face a variety of barriers hindering their ability to be personally or financially self-sufficient, including domestic violence, generational poverty, and unemployment. Fresh Start offers focused programs, services, access to training and education, as well as employment and career services to help women reach their personal and professional goals through our Impact Program. For more information, visit www.freshstartwomen.org or connect with us on Instagram, Twitter or LinkedIn.
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HOUSTON (AP) — Justin Verlander pitched three scoreless innings before departing because of right calf discomfort, and the Houston Astros used five relievers to close out a 3-1 victory over the Baltimore Orioles on Sunday.
Alex Bregman homered for AL West-leading Houston, and Yuli Gurriel had a two-run single. The Astros dropped the first two games of the weekend set after winning four in a row.
It was the shortest outing of the season for Verlander, one of the front-runners for the AL Cy Young Award.
Houston manager Dusty Baker said Verlander was going in for imaging on Monday, adding that he said he felt it when he went to cover first base during a rundown on a double play that ended the top of the third.
Verlander had Tommy John surgery in 2020 and missed all of last season.
“It was his calf, and that’s the best of bad news,” Baker said. “We’re glad it wasn’t anything to do with his elbow or arm or anything like that, so we will just have to wait until he has the imaging tomorrow.”
The 39-year-old Verlander allowed three hits, struck out six and walked one. The right-hander had already left the stadium before the media was allowed into the clubhouse after the game, according to team officials.
“He threw that pitch, and then, he came off the field with the third out, and he just went down the tunnel,” Baker said.
Verlander threw 60 pitches, 39 for strikes. He allowed consecutive singles to Cedric Mullins and Adley Rutschman in the first, and then struck out the next three batters.
“These things happen,” Baker said. “They can happen to anybody on the field. Like I said, I was just happy it wasn’t his elbow. One quick move, and it happened.”
Verlander lowered his major league-leading ERA to 1.84. He leads the AL with 16 wins.
Houston’s bullpen then allowed one run and four hits over six innings. Ryne Stanek (2-1) tossed a perfect seventh for the win, and Rafael Montero worked a rocky ninth for his ninth save.
“We didn’t want it to go into extra innings, that’s for sure because we only had (Will) Smith left in our bullpen,” Baker said. “These guys did a great job today.”
Baltimore got on the board on Austin Hays’ RBI single in the ninth. Pinch-hitter Kyle Stowers followed with another base hit, but Montero struck out Rougned Odor to end it.
“We did not swing the bat off the bullpen,” Baltimore manager Brandon Hyde said. “It’s a good bullpen. It’s the best bullpen or one of the top two for a reason. Just didn’t get anything going, unfortunately.”
Gurriel snapped a scoreless tie with his two-run single through the right side in the seventh.
Orioles starter Austin Voth walked Alex Bregman to start the inning, and Kyle Tucker greeted Bryan Baker with a double. Two batters later, Gurriel singled through a drawn-in infield.
Bregman connected in the eighth, sending a drive to left-center for his 20th homer.
Voth (4-2) allowed one run and one hit in six-plus innings. Voth has allowed three runs or fewer in every start this season. It was his first loss since June 29.
“You pitch well, and you lose all the time,” Voth said. “Sometimes you hit, sometimes we can’t get any hits to get the bats rolling. You’ve got to focus on you and on the mound and what you can do to help the team out.”
TRAINER’S ROOM
Orioles: RHP Tyler Wells (left oblique strain) was expected to throw a simulated game either Sunday or Monday, Hyde said.
Astros: DH Yordan Alvarez was out of the lineup after getting treatment on his left hand, Baker said, adding that he was hopeful Alvarez would be ready on Tuesday. There had been no discussion of a trip to the injured list for Alvarez, Baker said. … OF Chas McCormick (dislocated right pinkie) swung the bat on Sunday, but his finger was still swollen, Baker said.
UP NEXT
Orioles: Following an off day, Baltimore starts a three-game series at the Guardians on Tuesday. RHP Spenser Watkins (4-4, 3.96 ERA) is slated to start for the Orioles opposite RHP Cal Quantrill (10-5, 3.59 ERA).
Astros: Following an off day, Houston opens a two-game series at the Rangers on Tuesday. Framber Valdez (13-4, 2.65 ERA) will start Tuesday for the Astros.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Monday called the leaders of two U.S. veterans groups assisting Afghans who have fled from the country on the eve of the one-year anniversary of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan.
Biden spoke to the leaders of the veterans-led #AfghanEvac and Honor the Promise groups to express his appreciation for their work resettling Afghan allies in the United States since the U.S. ended the 20-year war in Afghanistan.
“They discussed the substantial efforts that have been undertaken by the U.S. government, veterans, and by so many Americans of all stripes to welcome nearly 90,000 Afghans to our country over the past year and the U.S. government’s ongoing efforts to build a sustainable model to support relocation efforts and honor our commitments,” National Security Council spokeswoman Adrienne Watson said.
Tuesday marks the one year anniversary of Biden declaring an end to the war. The final weeks of America's longest war were chaotic as the U.S.-backed Afghan government collapsed, a grisly bombing killed 13 U.S. troops and 170 others, and thousands of desperate Afghans descended on Kabul’s airport in search of a way out before the final U.S. cargo planes departed.
Biden continues to face criticism from immigrant refugee advocates that the administration has fallen short in resettling Afghans who assisted the U.S. war effort.
As of last month, more than 74,000 Afghan applicants remained in the pipeline for special immigrant visas that help military interpreters and others who worked on government-funded contracts move to the United States and pave the way for them to receive a green card. That total counts only the principal applicant and does not include spouses and children. More than 17,000 of that pool of applicants had received a critical chief of mission approval, according to White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre Monday.
John Kirby, coordinator for strategic communications at the White House National Security Council, said the administration is continuing efforts to approve the visa process.
“We understand the frustration by many,” Kirby said. “Quite frankly, we share that frustration and we try as hard as we can to to streamline the process.”
Shawn VanDiver, a Navy veteran and founder of #AfghanEvac," said on Twitter after his call with Biden that he was “glad to hear him say that this issue matters to him and that he recognizes the impact this has had on #Afghans, our volunteers, and the world."
Days after the unexpected fall of Kabul last year, national security adviser Jake Sullivan promised the White House would “conduct an extensive hot wash” and “look at every aspect” of the withdrawal from top to bottom.” The administration has not said when the review might be released to the public.
Biden last week issued a statement honoring 13 U.S. troops who were killed in the final days of the U.S. military presence in Afghanistan at Kabul International Airport as they assisted with the evacuation of Afghans who assisted the American war effort.
Jean-Pierre said she did not have any details on how Biden would mark Tuesday's anniversary. The president is scheduled to travel to Wilkes Barre, Pa., on Tuesday to deliver a speech on his efforts to reduce gun crime in the U.S.
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Associated Press White House correspondent Zeke Miller contributed reporting. | https://www.mrt.com/news/article/Biden-calls-Afghan-war-vets-ahead-of-withdrawal-17405716.php | 2022-08-29T21:09:51Z | https://www.mrt.com/news/article/Biden-calls-Afghan-war-vets-ahead-of-withdrawal-17405716.php | false |
7-year-old girl killed by 400-pound stone statue at hotel while on European vacation
Published: Aug. 29, 2022 at 3:56 PM CDT|Updated: 13 minutes ago
BERLIN (AP) — A girl who was on vacation from Italy with her parents has died after a stone statue fell on her at a hotel in Munich, German police said Sunday.
The 7-year-old was hit by the roughly 440-pound statue in the courtyard of the hotel on Friday evening, police said. People at the scene were able to free the child and call emergency services, but she died later at a Munich hospital.
It wasn’t clear why the statue toppled over. Police said an investigation was ongoing.
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BETHEL, N.Y. (AP) — A New York City teenager drowned in a lake in upstate New York and his sister and uncle were in critical condition after trying to save him, police said Monday.
Basir Amin, 18, of Bellerose, Queens, was swimming in White Lake in Sullivan County at 2 p.m. Sunday when he began to struggle, New York state police said in a news release.
The teen’s sister, Nasrin Amin, 21, and their uncle, Afrid Haider, 34, tried to help Basir, but all three went under the water and did not resurface, police said.
Divers from the Bethel fire department pulled the three family members from the water and began life-saving measures. The three were taken to a hospital, where Basir Amin was pronounced dead. Haider and Nasrin Amin were in critical condition Monday, police said. | https://pix11.com/news/local-news/police-queens-teen-drowns-in-ny-lake-2-family-members-critical/ | 2022-08-29T21:12:01Z | https://pix11.com/news/local-news/police-queens-teen-drowns-in-ny-lake-2-family-members-critical/ | true |
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran’s president warned Monday that any roadmap to restore Tehran’s tattered nuclear deal with world powers must see international inspectors end their probe on man-made uranium particles found at undeclared sites in the country.
In a rare news conference marking his first year in office, President Ebrahim Raisi also issued threats against Israel and tried to sound upbeat as Iran’s economy and rial currency has cratered under the weight of international sanctions.
Despite the international attention on the deal as talks in Vienna hang in the balance, it took Raisi well over an hour before fully acknowledging the ongoing negotiations. Tehran and Washington have traded written responses in recent weeks on the finer points of the roadmap, which would see sanctions lifted against Iran in exchange for it restricting its rapidly advancing nuclear program.
The International Atomic Energy Agency for years has sought for Iran to answer questions about man-made uranium particles found at undeclared sites. U.S. intelligence agencies, Western nations and the IAEA have said Iran ran an organized nuclear weapons program until 2003. Iran long has denied ever seeking nuclear weapons.
As a member of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, Iran is obligated to explain the radioactive traces and to provide assurances that they are not being used as part of a nuclear weapons program. Iran found itself criticized by the IAEA’s Board of Governors in June over its failure to answer questions about the sites to the inspectors’ satisfaction.
Raisi mentioned the traces — referring to its as a “safeguards” issue using the IAEA’s language.
“Without settlement of safeguard issues, speaking about an agreement has no meaning,” Raisi said.
Under the 2015 nuclear deal, Tehran could enrich uranium to 3.67%, while maintaining a stockpile of uranium of 300 kilograms (660 pounds) under constant scrutiny of IAEA surveillance cameras and inspectors. Then-President Donald Trump unilaterally withdrew America from the accord in 2018, setting the stage for years of rising tensions.
As of the last public IAEA count, Iran has a stockpile of some 3,800 kilograms (8,370 pounds) of enriched uranium. More worrying for nonprofileration experts, Iran now enriches uranium up to 60% purity — a level it never reached before that is a short, technical step away from 90%. Those experts warn Iran has enough 60%-enriched uranium to reprocess into fuel for at least one nuclear bomb.
Amid the tensions, Israel is suspected in carrying out a series of attacks targeting Iranian nuclear sites, as well as a prominent scientist. On Monday, Raisi directly threatened Israel.
Raisi said if Israel decides to carry out its threats to destroy Iran’s nuclear program, “they will see if anything from the Zionist regime will remain or not.”
At his first news conference, Raisi famously simply said “no” when asked if he would meet with President Joe Biden. Asked again Monday as the U.N. General Assembly looms next month, Raisi stuck to his earlier answer.
“There is no benefit for a meeting between us and him,” the president said. “Neither for the Iranian nation nor for the interests of our great nation.”
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WFO AMARILLO Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Monday, August 29, 2022
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SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
The National Weather Service in Amarillo has issued a
* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
Northwestern Armstrong County in the Panhandle of Texas...
Northern Randall County in the Panhandle of Texas...
Southwestern Carson County in the Panhandle of Texas...
Southern Potter County in the Panhandle of Texas...
* Until 415 PM CDT.
* At 321 PM CDT, severe thunderstorms were located along a line
extending from 6 miles northwest of Washburn to 5 miles west of
Mescalero Park, moving east at 10 mph.
HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Minor damage to roofs, siding, and trees is possible.
Hail damage to vehicles is expected.
* Locations impacted include...
Amarillo, Canyon, Panhandle, Lake Tanglewood, Mescalero Park,
Bushland, Washburn, Timbercreek Canyon and Pantex.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.
Torrential rainfall is occurring with these storms, and may lead to
flash flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded roadways.
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WFO AMARILLO Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Monday, August 29, 2022
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Amarillo TX
250 PM CDT Mon Aug 29 2022
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of northwestern
Armstrong, southwestern Carson and southeastern Potter Counties
through 315 PM CDT...
At 250 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm 8
miles northwest of Washburn, or 11 miles northeast of Amarillo,
moving east at 10 mph.
HAZARD...Wind gusts of 50 to 55 mph and penny size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects. Minor damage to outdoor objects is
possible.
Locations impacted include...
Amarillo, Washburn and Pantex.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
Torrential rainfall is also occurring with this storm and may lead to
localized flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded
roadways.
LAT...LON 3516 10162 3518 10163 3518 10172 3519 10176
3537 10174 3540 10144 3513 10146
TIME...MOT...LOC 1950Z 273DEG 9KT 3528 10167
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.75 IN
MAX WIND GUST...55 MPH
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Teamsters Call Out Challenges Facing Members as 1,500 Fight for Contract
WASHINGTON, Aug. 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- For weeks, Teamsters nationwide have stepped up their efforts to educate Golden Gophers' alumni about the abusive labor practices of the University of Minnesota (UMN), including concerns regarding poverty-level wages, discrimination, food insecurity and homelessness amongst service workers.
Teamsters Local 320 is fighting for a new contract for 1,500 custodians, dormitory attendants, dining workers, animal research caregivers, waste workers, and other service workers at the five main UMN campuses. Many of the workers are Black, including immigrants from Somalia, Ethiopia, Eritrea, and other East African countries.
"It makes me proud to see the outpouring of Teamster solidarity across the country for our brothers and sisters at the University of Minnesota," said Brian Aldes, Local 320 Secretary-Treasurer. "UMN and its president, Joan Gabel, need to understand that if they force us to take it to the streets, the Teamsters will do whatever it takes to make sure none of our members have to skip meals because they don't have enough money for food."
In Portland, Ore. Teamsters Local 305 and Teamsters Joint Council 37 distributed leaflets asking "What's gone wrong at the University of Minnesota?" at the Portland Alumni Network's monthly breakfast. In Tampa Bay, Fla., Teamsters Local 79 held banners outside the Tampa Big Ten Kickoff alumni event calling on the university to "end worker abuse." Teamsters Local 455 went to a Colorado Rockies baseball game to handbill alumni by attending the Annual University of Minnesota Night with the Colorado Rockies, hosted by the Denver Alumni Network.
According to a recent survey of at least 450 current and former UMN service workers, more than 62 percent reported not earning enough money to pay for basic expenses every month.
Almost 12 percent reported experiencing homelessness at least once while working for UMN. Nearly 20 percent reported being hungry but not eating because they did not have the money.
A recent study on staff compensation conducted by UMN's Office of Human Resources shows that job salaries for campus operations positions are, on average, 13 percent below the market median. It also showed 74.5 percent of workers' salaries are below the market salary median.
"We are ready to negotiate a fair contract that honors the contributions of service workers at the university," Aldes said. "We are also preparing to strike the university if the current administration isn't willing to address poverty-level wages, staffing shortages, and high rates of turnover. These unconscionable practices are hampering the university's ability to provide services. These include responsibly caring for research animals on campus, effectively implementing the waste reduction program, and making sure food services are functional."
Founded in 1903, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters represents 1.2 million hardworking men and women throughout the United States, Canada, and Puerto Rico. Visit www.teamster.org for more information. Follow us on Twitter @Teamsters and "like" us on Facebook at www.facebook.com/teamsters.
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Recent genetic research has shed new light on the long-running debate about the evolutionary origins of some of New Zealand’s quirkiest plants.
More than one in ten native trees and shrubs have small leaves spaced far apart on wiry interlaced branches, often growing in a zig-zag pattern. Once the preserve of botanists, some of these plants have recently gained popularity as ornamentals.
Nowhere else on Earth has this “divaricate” growth form arisen independently in so many plant families.
It is a spectacular case of convergent evolution in response to environmental pressures. But what environmental pressures? The answer might help us decide how to manage New Zealand ecosystems.
Climate or moa?
The 19th-century German botanist Ludwig Diels noted that small-leaved shrubs are typical of dry climates. He thought the divaricate form might have arisen in response to cold, dry conditions during the Ice Ages.
In the 1970s, the competing “moa browsing” hypothesis emerged, arguing the divaricate form is a now-anachronistic defence against browsing by the large flightless birds that went extinct shortly after Polynesian settlement.
Read more: How did ancient moa survive the ice age – and what can they teach us about modern climate change?
Experiments have since lent support to the browsing hypothesis. Yet the concentration of divaricate plants in frosty and droughty districts suggests climate is also somehow involved.
So does evidence that the small leaves of divaricates are less vulnerable to chilling than large leaves. But climate does not seem to explain the unusual toughness of the branchlets of divaricate plants.
A synthetic hypothesis
Molecular dating shows most divaricate plant species arose within the last five million years. But fossils and genetic evidence show moa have been here much longer than that. This means moa browsing alone does not explain the evolution of divaricate forms in so many plant families.
The evidence seems more consistent with a newer synthetic hypothesis that moa browsing had more impact when plants were exposed to a new combination of circumstances: worldwide cooling, the development of frosty, droughty climates in the lee of the recently uplifted Southern Alps, and fertile new soils derived from glacial outwash.
Frosty and droughty climates posed direct physiological challenges to plants, but they also left them more exposed to browsing by preventing them from growing quickly out of reach of moa. Climatic restrictions on growth thus probably made anti-browsing defences more important for plant survival.
Read more: Dead as the moa: oral traditions show that early Māori recognised extinction
Support for this hypothesis comes from a recent experiment, which found climate influenced the impact of deer browsing on competition between divaricate plants and their broad-leaved relatives growing in treefall gaps.
Furthermore, the fertile new soils created by outwash from glaciers would have enhanced the nutrient content of plant tissues, probably resulting in increased browsing pressure. Studies of African savannas show that thorns and divaricate-like growth forms are typical of fertile soils with abundant browsing mammals.
Do deer act as moa surrogates?
For several centuries after the extinction of the moa, there were no large browsers in New Zealand, until European settlers introduced deer and other hoofed animals. Although valued as game animals and a food source, deer are also considered pests because of their impact on native vegetation.
Feeding experiments have shown both avian and hoofed herbivores are unenthusiastic about eating divaricate plants if alternatives with large soft leaves are available. The spacing of small leaves far apart along wiry branchlets reduces bite size and makes it difficult for browsers to meet their nutritional needs.
Scientists have studied ancient moa diets by identifying pollen grains in fossilised poo (coprolites). Data interpretation is hampered by our inability to identify pollen to species level in plant groups that include both divaricate and broad-leaved species. But it would seem likely that divaricate plants presented similar nutritional challenges to moa.
Analysis of moa coprolites suggests forest understories a millennium ago were more diverse than those we see today, after more than 150 years of browsing by deer. This suggests moa had less impact on vegetation than deer do today.
Factors limiting the impact of moa on vegetation
Unlike deer in contemporary New Zealand, moa faced a deadly predator throughout the entire country: the now-extinct Haast’s eagle. Although moa could safely browse under forest canopies, they would have been at risk at watering sites and in open areas.
In contrast, although deer face strong hunting pressure in some areas, recreational hunting has little impact in remote and rugged areas like the Kaweka ranges, where uncontrolled populations of sika deer threaten regeneration of even relatively unpalatable trees like mountain beech.
Fast-growing palatable shrubs and small trees like karamū, patē and māhoe probably got their best chance to escape moa browsing when treefalls let in enough light to enable them to grow quickly out of reach, at least in warmer districts where such plants can grow more than a metre in one growing season.
Treefall gaps must have offered two other advantages for palatable plants. The remains of fallen trees can hamper access by large herbivores, and canopy openings would have exposed moa to attack by Haast’s eagle.
Moa were probably less able to exploit vegetation on steep slopes than deer and goats are today. The impact of moa across New Zealand landscapes would therefore probably have been less pervasive than the current impact of hoofed browsers.
Lastly, moa probably had a more sluggish metabolism than mammalian browsers of comparable size, implying lower energy requirements and hence lower feeding rates. Close living relatives of moa (kiwis and emus) burn less energy than herbivorous mammals of similar body weight or large flighted birds like swans and geese.
The future of deer in New Zealand
Deer could act as imperfect surrogates for moa, but only if subject to effective control throughout the country.
Aerial 1080 drops to control rats, stoats and possums also usually kill deer, though the mortality rate varies widely. That is one way deer populations could be kept to acceptable levels in remote and rugged areas, where recreational hunting pressure is insignificant. Aerial culling by shooting has also shown potential.
Commercial hunting cannot be relied on to control deer, because of the vagaries of the market. When the price of venison falls, there is little incentive to hunt deer. Aerial 1080 or aerial culling therefore currently seem the only realistic ways to curb the impact of deer in remote and rugged areas. | https://theconversation.com/how-the-ice-ages-spurred-the-evolution-of-new-zealands-weird-and-wiry-native-plants-188140 | 2022-08-29T21:25:29Z | https://theconversation.com/how-the-ice-ages-spurred-the-evolution-of-new-zealands-weird-and-wiry-native-plants-188140 | false |
HOUSTON, Aug. 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Salient Midstream & MLP Fund (the "Fund") (NYSE: SMM) previously announced that if shareholders approve the reorganization of the Fund with and into Salient MLP & Energy Infrastructure Fund ("SMAPX") (the "Reorganization"), the Fund intends to complete the Reorganization as soon as possible after the shareholder vote. It is currently expected that the Reorganization will be completed after the market close of the New York Stock Exchange ("NYSE") on September 13, 2022 subject to the satisfaction of customary closing conditions and the unwinding of the Fund's leverage. To facilitate the anticipated Reorganization, Automated Customer Account Transfer Service ("ACATS") will be restricted as of market close on September 2, 2022, and all shares of the Fund will cease trading on the NYSE as of market close on Thursday, September 8, 2022. On Wednesday, September 14, 2022, shareholders of the Fund who become shareholders of SMAPX pursuant to the Reorganization will hold shares of SMAPX and not the Fund. Shareholders of the Fund who become shareholders of SMAPX will receive newly issued Class A Shares of SMAPX in the Reorganization. The aggregate net asset value of SMAPX shares received by Fund shareholders will be equal to the aggregate net asset value of the shares of the Fund held by Fund shareholders, in each case as of the close of business on the date of Reorganization. Shares of SMAPX may be purchased or redeemed on any business day. SMAPX is an open-end fund that is a series of Salient MF Trust with approximately $996 million in net assets and is also managed by Salient Capital Advisors, LLC, the investment adviser of SMM, using a similar investment strategy.
This press release is not intended to, and does not constitute an offer to purchase or sell shares of the Fund or SMAPX (together, the "Funds") nor is this press release intended to solicit a proxy from any shareholder of the Funds. The solicitation of the purchase or sale of securities or of proxy to effect the Reorganization will only be made by the definitive Proxy Statement/Prospectus.
The Funds and their respective trustees and officers, and Salient, and its partners, officers and employees and other persons may be deemed to be participants in the solicitation of proxies with respect to the Reorganization. Investors and shareholders may obtain more detailed information regarding the direct and indirect interests of the Funds' respective trustees and officers, and Salient and its partners, officers and employees and other persons by reading the Proxy Statement/Prospectus filed with the SEC.
INVESTORS AND SHAREHOLDERS OF THE FUNDS ARE URGED TO READ THE PROXY STATEMENT/PROSPECTUS AND OTHER DOCUMENTS FILED WITH THE SEC CAREFULLY AND IN THEIR ENTIRETY BECAUSE THESE DOCUMENTS CONTAIN IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT THE REORGANIZATION. INVESTORS SHOULD CONSIDER THE INVESTMENT OBJECTIVES, RISKS, CHARGES AND EXPENSES OF THE FUNDS CAREFULLY. THE PROXY STATEMENT/PROSPECTUS CONTAINS INFORMATION WITH RESPECT TO THE INVESTMENT OBJECTIVES, RISKS, CHARGES AND EXPENSES OF THE FUNDS.
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Shareholders may obtain free copies of the Proxy Statement/Prospectus and other documents filed with the SEC at the SEC's web site at www.sec.gov. In addition, free copies of the final Proxy Statement/Prospectus and other documents filed with the SEC may also be obtained by directing a request to Salient Investor Relations at (713) 548-2636.
Salient Midstream & MLP Fund is a Delaware statutory trust registered as a non-diversified, closed-end management investment company under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended. The Fund's investment objective is to provide a high level of total return with an emphasis on making quarterly cash distributions to its common shareholders. The Fund seeks to achieve that objective by investing at least 80% of its total assets in securities of MLPs and midstream companies. There can be no assurance that the Fund will achieve its investment objective.
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About Salient
Salient Partners, L.P. ("Salient") is a real asset and alternative investment firm that offers a suite of strategies focused on energy and infrastructure, real estate and tactical alternative investments. Institutions and investment advisors turn to Salient to build smarter, more efficient portfolios. Strategies are offered in the form of open- and closed-end funds and separately managed accounts. Salient was founded in 2002 and has offices in Houston and San Francisco. Learn more about Salient at www.salientpartners.com.
The Salient MLP & Energy Infrastructure Fund (the "SMAPX") seeks to maximize total return (capital appreciation and income). SMAPX seeks to achieve its investment objective by investing in at least 80% of its net assets in securities of MLPs and energy infrastructure companies. Investing involves risk including the potential loss of principal. SMAPX may engage in other investment practices that may involve additional risks and you should review the Fund prospectus for a complete description.
You should consider the investment objectives, risks, charges and expenses of the Funds carefully before investing. The prospectus and summary prospectus for SMAPX contain this and other information about SMAPX and are available by calling 866-667-9228. They should be read carefully before investing.
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CLEMSON – Myles Murphy knows what the experts say about his draft chances, but he also knows that in the topsy-turvy world of major college football and NFL expectations, that can change in the blink of an eye. That’s why he’s paying attention to the here and now.
Most NFL mock drafts have Murphy pegged as a top-15 pick should he decide to forego his final season at Clemson and enter his name into the draft. However, he knows a lot can change between August and next spring.
"Last year, in a lot of mock drafts, my dad was telling me that Travon Walker was not even mentioned in the 1st round draft picks, and he was No. 1 overall," Murphy said after a recent practice. "A lot of those mock drafts can be right, but most are just incorrect-- (or) for the fans. It's cool to know that my name is up there at the top, but no, I do not pay much attention to those mock drafts."
A former top-5 national recruit who earned Freshman All-America honors from several outlets in 2020 and earned a fourth-team All-American selection from Phil Steele in 2021, Murphy enters 2022 credited with 94 tackles (26.0 for loss), 11.0 sacks, five forced fumbles and three pass breakups over 25 games (16 starts).
The numbers are good, yes, but he isn’t about to let those distract him from his goals, and he’s been getting advice from former NFL players who have been through the process.
"Don't get the big head, don't let the outside distractions get too big," Murphy said of the advice. "Stay where you are, stay in the now, win today."
What is he looking to improve this season?
"Staying a very consistent run stuffer, improving on being a more consistent pass rusher, those are the main two things," Murphy said. "Staying true to my technique, I know a lot of times when I get to the quarterback, I got a little lazy sometimes. I thought it was a given if I got to the quarterback, he'll go down, but now I gotta finish the play.”
Murphy can take advice – and learn how to play the game – from Nick Eason. Even though Eason coaches the defensive tackles and Lemanski Hall coaches the defensive ends, he played at Clemson and in the NFL and hasn’t been shy about passing along his knowledge. Not only to Murphy but to the entire defensive line.
"It's been a huge improvement-- his NFL knowledge and his expertise. He's working on the little things-- timing, hand placement, eyes," Murphy said. "A lot of the stuff that people on the outside-looking in don't see. He's teaching us the game and making sure we understand pass rushing and playing the run."
The Clemson defensive line has a chance to stand among the nation’s best, and Murphy said confidence is high with the group.
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DUBLIN, Calif., Aug. 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- TriNet (NYSE: TNET), a leading provider of comprehensive human resources for small and medium-size businesses (SMBs), today announced the addition of four renowned recording artists to its roster of thought leaders and influencers for TriNet PeopleForce 2022. The three-day, award-winning conference taking place September 13-15 will feature acclaimed leaders from the worlds of business, public policy, science, social justice, sports, entertainment, media and more. The live event will take place at the Theater at City Tech in downtown Brooklyn, NY, and virtually from anywhere.
The opening of the conference will feature a performance by singer-songwriter and actress Katharine McPhee, who rose to fame in 2006 as the runner-up of the fifth season of American Idol. She subsequently released a series of best-selling albums and had major roles in a number of television and Broadway productions.
Country music singer Lauren Davidson, who has been described as "an early Patsy Cline or Linda Rondstadt" and "the most underrated female artist," will kick off day two of TriNet PeopleForce. Singer, dancer and actress Victoria Renee, who has worked with hit music producers and artists including Boy Rekless, Young Yonny, and Tracie Hale, will open day three of TriNet PeopleForce. Loren Allred, who made her Billboard Hot 100 debut with the Platinum-selling "Never Enough" from the musical soundtrack to The Greatest Showman, will conclude the conference with a performance.
"I can't think of a better way to complement our incredible roster of speakers than with performances by these four amazingly talented artists, who collectively represent passion, purpose, and perseverance—the cornerstones of TriNet PeopleForce 2022," commented Michael Mendenhall, SVP, CMO and CCO at TriNet. "Their individual performances along with our entire roster of esteemed speakers are sure to be an inspiration for small and medium-sized businesses everywhere."
Previously announced speakers include Dr. Jane Goodall, DBE, Founder, the Jane Goodall Institute, UN Messenger of Peace, award-winning actor, musician and entrepreneur Riz Ahmed, global superstar and entertainer Lilly Singh, world-renowned chef and humanitarian José Andrés, best-selling author and feminist activist Gloria Steinem, former NASA astronaut Mike Massimino, and many more.
TriNet PeopleForce 2022 will provide entrepreneurs and SMB leaders with three days of outstanding speakers and dynamic sessions that will focus on this year's conference theme: passion, purpose and perseverance.
Register to attend virtually or live in New York by visiting peopleforce.TriNet.com.
About TriNet
TriNet (NYSE: TNET) provides small and medium-size businesses (SMBs) with full-service HR solutions tailored by industry. To free SMBs from HR complexities, TriNet offers access to human capital expertise, benefits, risk mitigation and compliance, payroll, all enabled by industry leading technology capabilities. TriNet's suite of products also includes services and software-based solutions to help streamline workflows by connecting HR, Benefits, Employee Engagement, Payroll and Time & Attendance. From Main Street to Wall Street, TriNet empowers SMBs to focus on what matters most—growing their business and enabling their people. TriNet, incredible starts here. For more information, visit TriNet.com or follow us on Twitter.
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VANCOUVER, BC, Aug. 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Atmofizer Technologies Inc. (the "Company" or "Atmofizer") (CSE: ATMO) (Frankfurt: J3K) (OTCQB: ATMFF) is pleased to announce its financial results for the quarter ended June 30, 2022. All amounts are expressed in United States dollars unless otherwise noted.
CORORATE DEVELOPMENTS
On April 5, 2022, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (the "USPTO") issued U.S. Patent No. 11,291,939 relating to the Company's air and water purification technology. The patent provides protection for the application of the Company's air and water purification technology in the United States.
On April 28, 2022, the Company amended its December 13, 2021 agreement with Emerging Markets Consulting, LLC ("EMC"). EMC provides investor and public relations services including content creation, web development, and webcasting for the Company in North America. Pursuant to the terms and conditions of the amended agreement, EMC continued to provide these services for an additional two months for a cash fee of $225,000. Certain functions of EMC may include "investor relations activities" under the policies of the CSE and applicable securities laws.
On May 11, 2022, the Company announced test results of its airborne nanoparticle agglomeration engine. The test results at Atmofizer's Toronto lab showed that the Company's technology, before the use of an air filter, reduced the number of airborne ultra-fine particles smaller than one micron by 81.7%, while doubling the removal of larger particles sized above 2.5 microns. The Company believes this was significant scientifically and medically, as it demonstrated the ability to remove ultra-fine nanoscopic particles from the air (including toxic industrial pollution, smoke, and infectious disease). The ability to filter particles smaller than 2.5 microns is commonly regarded as an indicator of good air quality. Doubling the amount of particles larger than 2.5 microns demonstrated that the smaller particles were effectively being agglomerated together into larger clusters by the Company's technology. These larger clusters are typically more easily filtered by the body and common air filters. The results were achieved without the use of a common air filter. The Company has also added additional staff to its Toronto testing facility to focus on applying its agglomeration technology into mobile (transport vehicles) and heating, ventilation, and air conditioning ("HVAC") aftermarket applications. The additional staff will enable the Company to test and evaluate new Atmofizer airflow configurations and prototypes more quickly.
On May 24, 2022, the Company announced the launch of a new customer lease-finance program through its majority-owned leasing subsidiary. The program enables Atmofizer customers to acquire Atmofizer nanoparticle reduction air purifiers for less than one dollar per day. Customers may be required to make a down payment (ranging from $0- $99) and then pay $29.99/month to participate in the program. The down payment is less than 10% of the manufacturer's suggested retail price. Customers utilizing the lease-finance program will receive a standard limited warranty for the Atmofizer for the duration of a 36 month term lease. This credit facility will make the Company's air purification technology more accessible to a wider range of consumers. For higher volume customers, such as hotels, cruise ships and schools, the Company intends to extend the "clean air for less than a dollar a day" financing with no down payment required, subject to certain terms and conditions.
On May 26, 2022, the Company announced a non-exclusive U.S. distribution agreement with Safeware Inc. ("Safeware"). Safeware is an industry leader in safety equipment that supplies U.S. state and local governments and education organizations. For more than 40 years, Safeware has provided public safety equipment nationally with expertise in personal protective equipment, environmental detection and monitoring, and tactical and rescue gear. Safeware services and supports all aspects of safety for law enforcement and fire services, schools, public works and facilities. Beginning in third quarter 2022, the Company's products will be in Safeware's inventory catalog and will be marketed by its sales and key account teams across the United States. The Company expects initial orders to begin by the third quarter of 2022, with revenue to be generated by the fourth quarter of 2022.
As of the six months ended June 30, 2022, the Company had issued 26,407,500 common shares in the authorized share structure of the Company ("Common Shares") with gross proceeds of C$1,824,790 under the "at-the-market" equity distribution program pursuant to a prospectus supplement dated February 26, 2022 (the "ATM Program").
FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTS FOR QUARTER ENDED JUNE 30, 2022
For the three months ended June 30, 2022, the Company generated revenue of $nil compared to $53,000 with a gross profit of $20,488 (38.66%) during the three months ended June 30, 2021. There were a number of issues contributing to the lack of sales in the quarter. The Company has faced supply chain challenges for critical components for its Atmofizer ONE air purifiers that have contributed to this situation. Additional supply chain issues occurred in respect of computer chips, one of the critical components facing a global short supply. During the quarter the Company has been able to source some of these components and expects to have increased supply of A500 units late in the third quarter. Additionally, the Company found the regulatory environment challenging to import and sell its products during the quarter under the United States Environmental Protection Agency's pesticide device regulations. As a result under these regulations, the Company was unable to actually make any meaningful claims about its products efficacy despite having lab results showing the products' ability to neutralize bacteria and viruses through third-party labs. To overcome the issue impacting its unit sales, Atmofizer will now market its air purifiers in the United States under "Guidance for Industry and Food and Drug Administration Staff – Enforcement Policy for Sterilizers, Disinfectant Devices, and Air Purifiers During the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Public Health Emergency" (the "FDA's Air Purifier Policy") issued in March 2020 by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (the "FDA"). . Atmofizer has assessed the conditions of FDA's Air Purifier Policy and determined the subject device meets the relevant technological characteristics and is substantiated by the performance criteria and labeling recommended by FDA.
The Company currently markets their products, under FDA's Air Purifier Policy as a means to support response efforts to the ongoing COVID-19 Public Health Emergency. In alignment with FDA's guidance, the Company is seeking to expand the availability and capability of Air Purifiers presumed efficacious against SARS-CoV-2 (the virus which causes COVID-19) during the public health emergency. Furthermore, Atmofizer intends to market the device in agreement with FDA's stance per this guidance, in that the company believes that increased access to these air purifying devices may facilitate reduced risk of viral exposure for patients, healthcare providers, and consumers to SARS-CoV-2. The Company expects that this new marketing of its products under the FDA's Air Purifier Policy will result in unit sales starting late in the third quarter of 2022.
The new model 4-log Atmofizer ONE devices are expected to be available in late in the third quarter of 2022 and will be marketed and imported into the United States under the FDA's Air Purifier Policy referenced above, to create streamline importation and best align market opportunities and regulatory requirements. The Company will also seek to restructure United States distributor contracts to free up more inventory for sale in North America, and to reduce delivery concentration in channels not moving as quickly. Atmofizer also plans to redirect some inventory previously intended for the United States market to other countries where it has seen some sales success through one of its distributors.
During the six months ended June 30, 2022, the Company generated revenue of $210,000 with a gross profit of $60,296 (28.71%) compared to $53,000 with a gross profit of $20,488 (38.66%) during the six months ended June 30, 2021.
The Company incurred $4.5 million in expenses during the three months ended June 30, 2022 compared to $1.5 million during the three months ended June 30, 2021. The increase of $3.0 million increase in expenses was driven primarily by share based payments of $2.5 million and $1.3 million in sales and marketing expense of which $1 million was paid by issuing Common Shares. There were significant decreases over the previous quarter in management fees ($0.3 million) and research and development ($0.3 million). Salaries and wages and sales and marketing expenses were increased by $0.3 million and $0.3 million respectively.
The Company incurred $11 million in expenses during the six months ended June 30, 2022 compared to $3.8 million during the six months ended June 30, 2021. The increase of $7.3 million increase in expenses was driven primarily by share based payments of $6.4 million and $1.4 million in sales and marketing expense of which $1 million was paid by issuing Common Shares. There were significant decreases over the previous year in consulting fees ($0.8 million decrease), management fees ($0.5 million) and research and development expenses ($0.3 million).
During the three months ended June 30, 2022, the Company recorded net loss of $5 million compared to a net loss of $1.4 million for the three months ended June 30, 2021. The biggest contributors to the increase in the net loss of $3.7 million was share-based payments of $3 million.
During the six months ended June 30, 2022, the Company recorded net loss of $11.5 million compared to a net loss of $3.8 million for the six months ended June 30, 2021. The biggest contributors to the increase in the net loss of $7.8 million was share-based payments of $7.6 million.
"The Company achieved a number of important technology development milestones during the second quarter of 2022. Our science team continued to make significant advancements to prove and productize our technology to achieve our ultimate goal of delivering cleaner air, energy savings and improved efficiency during the quarter. We are doing this by expanding beyond our appliance business and into the multi-billion dollar HVAC industry. We recently received a Notice of Allowance for new claims related to the Company's air purification technology from the USPTO. The recent Notice of Allowance from the USPTO is directed to a new design that delivers ultra-fine particle agglomeration and nanoparticle reduction performance in larger air ducts with faster-moving air, using less parts," said Atmofizer CEO, Olivier Center. "The Company plans to market this patent to be licensed by air purification device manufacturers, HVAC suppliers and service companies. Our first priority is to leverage our strong relationships with HVAC distribution partners to commercialize our nano particle agglomeration technology through licensing. With respect to our appliance business, we experienced head winds from both supply chain related issues as well as regulatory issues. We see ourselves now in a better position to work with our distributors under the FDA's Air Purifier Policy and deliver appliance sales as well as having more appliance inventory on hand to sell through. We continue to follow our asset light objective of developing new clean technology and licensing or partnering with industry leaders to scale faster and capital efficiently."
SUBSEQUENT EVENTS
On August 23, 2022, the Company announced that the USPTO issued a Notice of Allowance for new claims related to the Company's air and water purification technology. The allowed patent application, titled, "Ultra-Fine Particle Aggregation, Neutralization and Filtration" (US Patent Application No. 11,291,939) provides broad protection for important aspects of Atmofizer's air purification technology. The recent Notice of Allowance from the USPTO is directed to a new design that delivers ultra-fine particle agglomeration and nanoparticle reduction performance in larger air ducts with faster-moving air, using less parts. The Company plans to market this patent to be licensed by air purification device manufacturers, HVAC suppliers and service companies.
On August 25, 2022, the Company announced the latest testing performed by a third-party laboratory on Atmofizer ONE technology demonstrated a greater than 4-log reduction ( > 99.99%) in specifically targeted microorganisms, including gram-positive bacteria, gram-negative bacteria, and enveloped virus. The Atmofizer ONE is now marketed subject to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's "Enforcement Policy for Sterilizers, Disinfectant Devices, and Air Purifiers During the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Public Health Emergency" (March 2020).
Atmofizer ONE Performance Update
Atmofizer Efficacy Claims:
- 99.99% reduction of Klebsiella Aerogenes [gram-negative bacteria]
- 99.99% reduction of Staphylococcus Epidermis [gram-positive bacteria]
- 99.99% reduction of Phi-6 Bacteriophage [enveloped virus, Surrogate for SARS-CoV-2]
Atmofizer SARS-CoV-2 Specific Efficacy Claims
- Atmofizer reduces airborne SARS-CoV-2
- Atmofizer destroys over 99.99% SARS-CoV-2 without a filter
- Atmofizer destroys SARS-CoV-2 by over 99.99% in 45 minutes
These results are based on third-party laboratory tests at 180 minutes of continuous device operation. The FDA has not evaluated Atmofizer technology. Atmofizer ONE has not been reviewed or approved by the FDA. SARS-CoV-2 data is based on Third-Party Testing of Phi-6 Bacteriophage, a surrogate microorganism for SARS-CoV-2.
About Atmofizer Technologies Inc.
Atmofizer's consumer and industrial solutions are based on its patent-protected and patent pending technology for ultrafine particle agglomeration and neutralization. This capability creates a revolutionary and more efficient method for addressing the wide range of dangerous nano-scale particles, viruses and bacteria that are too small to be effectively managed by conventional HEPA filters and ultraviolet lights. Atmofizer plans to disrupt the air treatment industry by improving air safety and purification efficiency while lowering customers' operational costs.
Atmofizing air refers to the process of using ultrasonic acoustic waves to agglomerate (cluster together) small particles into a larger target that is then radiated by ultraviolet light to neutralize their harmful properties, making the air you breath less hazardous to your health. Using units that atmofize air in tandem with high efficiency particulate air ("HEPA") filters can make the HEPA filters work more efficiently, enable the use of a less-powerful filter and result in a cleaner and longer-lasting filter that reduces operating costs and is less of a health hazard to clean or replace.
Atmofizer is patent-pending and patent-protected sole source of technology to atmofize air and is applying its proprietary technology in consumer and industrial air purification products currently manufactured under the Atmofizer brand, as well as in retail and commercial devices produced by other companies that integrate Atmofizer technology into their own products under license. Atmofizer's owned and licensed product lines include wearable, portable and mobile use for personal air treatment, as well as larger systems to handle higher air volumes for commercial, industrial, institutional and residential applications.
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By their nature, forward-looking information is subject to inherent risks and uncertainties that may be general or specific and which give rise to the possibility that expectations, forecasts, predictions, projections or conclusions will not prove to be accurate, that assumptions may not be correct and that objectives, strategic goals and priorities will not be achieved. A variety of factors, including known and unknown risks, many of which are beyond our control, could cause actual results to differ materially from the forward-looking information in this press release including, without limitation: the Company's ability to comply with all applicable laws and governmental regulations relating to its commercial products; the ability of the Company to protect its intellectual property; impacts to the business and operations of the Company due to the COVID-19 pandemic; the conflict in eastern Europe; having only a limited operating history, the ability of the Company to access capital to meet future financing needs; the Company's reliance on management and key personnel; competition; changes in consumer trends; foreign currency fluctuations; and general economic, market or business conditions.
Additional risk factors can also be found in the Company's continuous disclosure documents, which have been filed on SEDAR and can be accessed at www.sedar.com. Readers are cautioned to consider these and other factors, uncertainties and potential events carefully and not to put undue reliance on forward-looking information. The forward-looking information contained herein is made as of the date of this press release and is based on the beliefs, estimates, expectations and opinions of management on the date such forward-looking information is made. The Company undertakes no obligation to update or revise any forward-looking information, whether as a result of new information, estimates or opinions, future events or results or otherwise or to explain any material difference between subsequent actual events and such forward-looking information, except as required by applicable law.
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BOSTON, Aug. 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- – Burns & Levinson is pleased to announce that it represented iVeena Delivery Systems, Inc. (iVeena), a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company with developmental products in keratoconus and pediatric myopia, in a strategic licensing agreement with Glaukos Corporation (NYSE: GKOS). On August 24, iVeena announced that it has licensed its lead asset, IVMED-80, an Orphan Drug Designated eye drop for keratoconus to Glaukos. The agreement grants Glaukos an exclusive global license to develop and commercialize IVMED-80. As part of the agreement, Glaukos paid $10 million upfront and will assume all costs associated with the development and regulatory activities on IVMED-80. In addition, deal terms include the potential for both development and sales milestone payments as well as royalties on sales to iVeena.
The Burns & Levinson intellectual property team was led by Partner Bruce Jobse, who provided advice and counsel during the drafting and negotiations of the license agreement with Glaukos.
iVeena Delivery Systems, Inc. is a privately held, clinical stage ophthalmology company developing disease-modifying pharmacologic innovations for refractive diseases. iVeena is also developing IVMED-85, a first in class, investigational eyedrop formulation for pediatric myopia where it plans to initiate a first in human clinical trial early 2023.
At Burns & Levinson, we provide high-level, client-centric and results-oriented legal services to our regional, national and international clients. We are a full-service law firm with 125 lawyers in Boston, Providence and London. Our areas of expertise include: business/finance, business litigation, divorce/family law, venture capital/emerging companies, employment, estate planning, government investigations, intellectual property, M&A/private equity, probate/trust litigation, and real estate. We partner with our clients to solve their business and personal legal issues in a collaborative, creative and cost-effective way. For more information, visit Burns & Levinson at www.burnslev.com.
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‘Appalachia Rises: Come Hell or High Water’ flood relief telethon partners with Gray TV stations
PRESTONSBURG, Ky. (WYMT/Gray News) - On the one month anniversary of the deadly flooding that swept through several Eastern Kentucky counties, musicians from across Kentucky and the country are joining together to raise funds for those affected.
On Monday, Eastern Kentucky natives Halfway to Hazard, Tyler Booth and Taylor Austin Dye will join T. Graham Brown at the Mountain Arts Center in Prestonsburg for the ‘Appalachia Rises: Come Hell or High Water’ flood relief telethon. The fundraiser is being shown live online in a partnership with Gray Television stations WYMT in Hazard, Kentucky, WKYT in Lexington, and WSAZ in Charleston/Huntington, West Virginia., as part of their work to assist in relief efforts.
Other big names like Trace Adkins, Dillion Carmichael, Lee Greenwood and Tracy Lawrence, along with Kentucky favorites John Michael Montgomery, Walker Montgomery, JD Shelburne and Wynonna Judd, have committed their time and support to the event.
All of the proceeds of the event will go to the Foundation for Appalachian Kentucky. For more information, or to donate online, please visit the Flood Relief section of WYMT’s website.
At least 39 people have died as a result of the flooding that devastated multiple counties July 29. Hundreds more were displaced from their homes.
“We are proud to partner once again with our friends in country music to aid those impacted by this devastating flood. Money raised during this benefit telethon will be used to help Eastern Kentuckians rebuild. We know this is going to be a long process, and we want to do everything we can to help our neighbors,” WYMT General Manager Neil Middleton said.
T. Graham Brown has taken the lyrics to his song “Hell and High Water” and helped create the “Come Hell Or High Water” T-shirt, which is an outline of the Kentucky Commonwealth punctuated by the words Kentucky Strong! Those can be ordered here.
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FORT MYERS, Fla. (AP) — A vegan woman convicted of murder in the malnutrition death of her young son was sentenced Monday to life in prison.
Sheila O’Leary, 38, whose family followed a strict vegan diet, was convicted in June on six charges — first-degree murder, aggravated child abuse, aggravated manslaughter, child abuse and two counts of child neglect — in the death of Ezra O’Leary. Her sentencing in Lee County, Florida, had previously been postponed four times.
Her husband, Ryan Patrick O’Leary, remains in jail while awaiting trial on the same charges. Investigators said the couple told them the family ate only raw fruits and vegetables, although the toddler also was fed breast milk. The 18-month-old boy weighed 17 pounds (8 kilograms) and was the size of a 7-month-old baby when he died in September 2019, a police report said.
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LONDON, Aug. 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- International Game Technology PLC ("IGT") (NYSE:IGT) and DoubleDown Interactive Co., Ltd. (NASDAQ: DDI) ("DoubleDown") today announced an agreement in principle to settle the Benson v. DoubleDown Interactive LLC, et. al. lawsuit and associated proceedings (the "Benson Matters"). IGT completed the sale of DoubleDown Interactive LLC ("DDI"), the operator of social gaming business DoubleDown Casino, to DoubleU Diamond LLC, a subsidiary of DoubleDown, in June 2017. The agreement in principle, entered into by certain subsidiaries of IGT and DoubleDown, remains contingent on final court approval by the U.S. Federal District Court for the Western District of Washington.
Under the terms of the settlement, which take effect only after final court approval of the proposed class settlement:
- A total of $415 million will be paid into a settlement fund of which IGT's subsidiaries will contribute $269.75 million and DDI will contribute $145.25 million.
- All members of the nationwide settlement class who do not exclude themselves will release all claims relating to the subject matter of the lawsuit.
Subject to final court approval of the settlement of the Benson v. DoubleDown Interactive LLC, et. al. lawsuit, IGT and DoubleDown have also resolved all indemnification and other claims between themselves and their respective subsidiaries and affiliates relating to the Benson Matters.
As a result of the settlement agreement, IGT will accrue a $119.75 million non-operating expense in the third quarter related to the incremental loss associated with the Benson Matters and related claims between IGT and DoubleDown and their respective subsidiaries and affiliates ($150 million was accrued in the second quarter).
About IGT
IGT (NYSE:IGT) is a global leader in gaming. We deliver entertaining and responsible gaming experiences for players across all channels and regulated segments, from Lotteries and Gaming Machines to Sports Betting and Digital. Leveraging a wealth of compelling content, substantial investment in innovation, player insights, operational expertise, and leading-edge technology, our solutions deliver unrivaled gaming experiences that engage players and drive growth. We have a well-established local presence and relationships with governments and regulators in more than 100 countries around the world, and create value by adhering to the highest standards of service, integrity, and responsibility. IGT has approximately 10,500 employees. For more information, please visit www.IGT.com.
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PARIS (AP) — French prosecutors are investigating allegations that World Cup winner Paul Pogba was targeted by extortion attempts by his brother and childhood friends.
The Paris prosecutor’s office said Monday it opened an investigation earlier this month into attempted organized extortion, which is being handled by anti-corruption police. It would not provide further details involving an ongoing investigation.
Public broadcaster France-Info reported that Pogba told police that a group of childhood friends demanded 13 million euros from him and repeatedly intimidated him, claiming he didn’t support them after he became an international soccer star.
When the group approached Pogba about their demand at the Juventus training center in Turin, he said his brother Mathias Pogba was among them, according to France-Info.
The case became public after Mathias Pogba posted a video and tweets this weekend threatening to share “explosive revelations” about his brother and France star Kylian Mbappe.
In response, Paul Pogba issued a statement through his lawyer that said his brother’s claims were “in addition to threats and extortion attempts by an organized gang against Paul Pogba.”
A 29-year-old midfielder, Paul Pogba won the World Cup with France in 2018 and returned this summer to Juventus after six seasons at Manchester United.
The 32-year-old Mathias Pogba is also a soccer player who spent most of his career with lower-tier teams in England and other European countries.
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Federer returns to play at French Open after 4-year absence
PARIS (AP) - Roger Federer is in action on the opening day of the French Open.
Returning to play at Roland Garros for the first time since 2015, Federer opens against 73rd-ranked Lorenzo Sonego in the third match on Court Philippe Chatrier.
Also Sunday, 2016 champion Garbine Muguruza faces 96th-ranked American Taylor Townsend in the first match at the tournament's newest stadium, Court Simonne Mathieu.
Sixth-seeded Stefanos Tsitsipas, who beat Federer at the Australian Open, plays Maximilian Marterer.
Others in action include: seventh-seeded Kei Nishikori; last year's semifinalist Marc Cecchinato; last week's Italian Open champion Karolina Pliskova, Venus Williams and Sloane Stephens.
The French Open is the only one of the four Grand Slam tournaments to begin on a Sunday.
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Ernie Zampese, one of the architects of the Dan Fouts-led “Air Coryell” offense with the San Diego Chargers and Troy Aikman's play-caller for the last of the Dallas Cowboys' three Super Bowl titles in the 1990s, has died. He was 86.
The Washington Commanders announced the death Monday without providing further details. Zampese's son, Ken Zampese, is Washington's quarterbacks coach.
Zampese joined Don Coryell's San Diego staff in 1979, starting an eight-year run during which Fouts and the Chargers led the NFL in yards passing six times. The Chargers made the playoffs the first four years, reaching the AFC championship game twice.
After seven seasons as the offensive coordinator for the Los Angeles Rams, Zampese joined the Cowboys in 1994 to direct an offense led by the “Triplets” of Aikman, running back Emmitt Smith and receiver Michael Irvin.
Dallas beat Pittsburgh in the Super Bowl a year later, and Zampese was in charge of the offense two more years before spending two seasons as New England's offensive coordinator.
Zampese ended his career with four seasons as a consultant: two in Dallas (2000-01) and one each with the St. Louis Rams (2002) and Washington (2004).
The Pro Football Hall of Fame gave Zampese an award of excellence this summer.
Fouts and Aikman are in the Hall of Fame along with Smith, Irvin and a pair of Chargers pass-catchers in receiver Charlie Joiner and tight end Kellen Winslow.
“Ernie Zampese was one of the brightest offensive minds in the history of the game,” Aikman wrote on Instagram with a picture of Zampese and him at a practice. “Many of his offensive concepts are still being used to this day.”
A day after Commanders rookie running back Brian Robinson Jr. was shot in what the NFL team described as an attempted robbery or carjacking, Ken Zampese got the news that his dad had died.
“Some things, obviously internally, we are just praying for our guys,” quarterback Carson Wentz said. “We’re a family and we want to keep it that way and pray for everybody when they’re going through stuff off the field.”
Zampese was an assistant at Cal Poly in 1966 before spending a decade at San Diego State. He broke into the NFL as a scout with the New York Jets in 1977 before moving on to the Chargers. Coryell is a finalist for the Hall of Fame's class of 2023.
After four years as the receivers coach on Coryell's staff, Zampese was the assistant head coach in charge of the passing game for three seasons, then offensive coordinator for one.
He joined the Cowboys after Norv Turner went to Washington as head coach, the same year of the acrimonious split between owner Jerry Jones and coach Jimmy Johnson.
Jones hired Barry Switzer, and Dallas lost the NFC championship game to San Francisco in Zampese's first season before winning the franchise's fifth Super Bowl. The Cowboys haven't even reached an NFC title game since the 1995 season.
“Norv was a student under Ernie, but Ernie is, to this day, is one of the best, if not the best in the business, in terms of developing quarterbacks and designing and developing Super Bowl championship offenses,” Cowboys executive vice president of personnel Stephen Jones said on his radio show on Monday.
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Where are the MAFS UK 2021 couples now? From a pregnancy and 'true love' to contestants who divorced weeks after the cameras stopped rolling, FEMAIL reveals their VERY varied fortunes ahead of new season
- A new series of Married At First Sight UK airs on Channel 4 this evening at 9pm
- Sixteen singletons are trying to find the love of their life on the reality TV show
- But how have 2021 couples fared in their quest for love? Here, FEMAIL finds out
A new series of Married At First Sight UK airs this evening - with 16 singletons lining up to find the love of their life.
The couples will make a lifelong commitment to one another at a glamorous ceremony, overseen by a wedding celebrant, that includes guests, bridal gowns, dancing, speeches and cake.
After the service and celebrations are over, true love is well and truly put to the test across more than 30 episodes as they embark on a luxurious honeymoon, before moving in with each other and their fellow couples.
But how have last year's contestants fared in their quest for love - and have any of them stayed with partners they were put with during the Channel 4 reality TV show?
Here, FEMAIL looks at the couples who are still together - including Tayah and Adam, who are expecting their first child with one another, as well as what the participants are now up to - from modelling to working with a sex toy and wellness brand...
TAYAH AND ADAM
Love at first sight: Adam and Tayah committed to one another on Married At First Sight last year, although not legally, after he got down on one knee
Happy couple: The couple are now planning a special day to make their partnership official, although they have pushed back the date
Happy news: The couple, who met and tied the knot on Married At First Sight last year, are ecstatic to be having their first child
The pair said they were delighted to see the positive pregnancy test and they are excited to be pregnant at the same time as Adam's cousin
Adam and Tayah committed to one another on Married At First Sight last year, although not legally, after he got down on one knee.
He said he wanted to profess his 'undying' love despite warnings from the other couples on the show they were moving too fast.
Asking Tayah to be his wife at the time, she cried: 'You being serious?' before saying, 'you know I will.' An emotional Adam said: 'You're making me cry now.'
In April 2022, Adam, 26, and Tayah, 25, announced they are expecting a little girl together and are ecstatic to be having their first child.
They told OK! magazine: 'We’re so excited. And the thing is we weren’t even trying! It just happened. I can’t believe it. We’re obviously just very fertile.'
Adam added: 'We both said we wanted to be young parents so we’re so happy it’s happened.'
The pair said they were delighted to see the positive pregnancy test and they are excited to be pregnant at the same time as Adam's cousin.
They are now planning a special day to make their partnership official, although they have pushed back the date.
Adam said: 'We’ve pushed it back to next year. We were going to get married on the date that both our parents got married so we were going to keep that tradition going, but now the baby is due around then so that can’t happen.
'Otherwise Tayah would probably be going into labour walking down the aisle and be in the hospital in a wedding dress!'
DANIEL AND MATT
Matt and Daniel made history when joining the programme as its first same-sex couple
Daniel (pictured right, recently) founded Wildbay Retreats and also teaches meditation to clients
Matt (pictured) previously admitted: 'The reason I've come onto the show is because I'm really wanting to meet that special person that I can start building a life with and have a family. I'm really excited.'
Matt and Daniel made history when joining the programme as its first same-sex couple.
Daniel, who was then a salesman, said of the opportunity: 'Married At First Sight UK is a big experience and quite nerve racking in many ways, however it is something that will allow me to shift my pattern in terms of relationships and it is a blessing to have the professional and scientific advice that will help me'.
He said he wanted to share his passion for hiking, meditation, cold water swims and vegetarian living with others.
Meanwhile, Matt admitted: 'The reason I've come onto the show is because I'm really wanting to meet that special person that I can start building a life with and have a family. I'm really excited.'
Fans of the show were worried that the couple wouldn't last - despite seemingly being perfect for each other - due to the distance of their hometowns, with Daniel living in Northern Ireland, and Matt being from West Yorkshire.
But it appears the two settled their differences and are still going strong - with Matt and Daniel appearing to be living together.
Daniel founded Wildbay Retreats and also teaches meditation to clients.
His website says: 'Dan's approach is experiential. By utilizing his wild surroundings to connect the body, mind and spirit, he awakens the soul through the senses and using nature’s tools to bring you back into align with your natural energy.'
AMY & JOSH
Amy Christophers and Josh Christie were matched on the third episode of Married At First Sight
Amy and Josh decided to stay together at the final commitment ceremony but just a couple of weeks before they were to appear on the reunion show, Josh broke up with Amy
Amy has since gone back to her day job as a journalist, working for Mirror Football and Racing TV
Josh is an online fitness coach and DJ. He has also worked with fitness brands including Under Armour and Reebok
Amy Christophers and Josh Christie were matched on the third episode of the show and things started off well for them.
The pair decided to decided to stay together at the final commitment ceremony, but they have now gone their separate ways.
Just a couple of weeks before they were due to appear on the reunion show together, Josh had broken up with Amy.
Amy returned home to Cornwall after the show and accused Josh of 'checking out' of the relationship.
She admitted to the experts on the show that she had been in love with Josh, to which he replied that he had a heart but felt that they weren't a compatible match.
Since appearing on the show Amy has gone back to her day job as columnist for Mirror Football. She also works for Racing TV.
Josh is an online fitness coach and DJ. In addition, he has worked with brands including Under Armour and Reebok.
MARILYSE & FRANKY
Mariylse Corrigan and Franky Spencer had one of the most controversial relationships on E4's Married At First Sight
Franky was called out by Women's Aid after his behaviour led fans to say that he was gaslighting his new wife
Marilyse has recently shared pictures of her new home in Yorkshire's East Riding and continues to work as a personal trainer
Franky has since headed back to Dubai after his split with Marilyse and is continuing to work as a fitness coach
Marilyse Corrigan and Franky Spencer had one of the most controversial relationships on E4's reality TV experiment.
Franky upset fans early on after making jokes in his wedding speech about no longer being able to get in a word in now he was married and later on in the show he commented on how Marilyse had a 'bug eye'.
Women's Aid called out his behaviour after fans took to social media to say that he was gaslighting his new wife.
After leaving the show together they stayed together for three months, but split shortly after the reunion show.
Mother-of-two Marilyse has since been spotted spending time in London with her friends and family.
There were rumours of her being linked to Luke, however they have both said that they are just friends.
Franky has since headed back to Dubai to continue working as a fitness coach.
LUKE AND MORAG
Veterinary Nurse Morag went on the show to find someone to 'help me open up and let someone in' but wasn't happy with partner Luke
Morag considered herself life and soul of the party and learned that from 'the best', her dad, with whom who she spent an unconventional upbringing between Essex and Ibiza
Luke now posts about positivity online and seems to be living his best life. Since leaving the show Morag has been converting a van to travel solo across the world
Veterinary Nurse Morag went on the show to find someone to 'help me open up and let someone in'.
She considered herself life and soul of the party and learned that from 'the best', her dad, with whom who she spent an unconventional upbringing between Essex and Ibiza.
Unapologetically confident and loud, a normal 9-5 was not for Morag, so a career change in her mid-twenties saw her chase her dreams of being a veterinary nurse in Australia.
In 2019, Morag returned to the UK when her dad fell ill and passed away.
She met fireman Luke but wasn't convinced by the emergency worker and the pair didn't work out.
Luke now posts about positivity online and seems to be living his best life. He was recently on holiday in Ibiza with Matt and Daniel.
Meanwhile, Morag has been converting a van to travel solo across the world, and has partnered with sex toy and wellness brand Vush, according to the Mirror.
MEGAN & BOB
Megan Wolfe and Bob Voysey had a turbulent relationship on the E4 show and ended up leaving the show following a string of arguments
Megan, who lives in Stoke, is pursuing a career as an actor and as a wellness coach since leaving the show
Bob has taken to modelling and has recently launched a podcast with Kat Shoob, 'Recapped At First Sight: The ultimate Married At First Sight UK companion podcast!'
Megan Wolfe and Bob Voysey had a turbulent relationship on the E4 show and ended up leaving the experiment following a string of arguments.
Megan revealed that she struggled to find a romantic connection with Bob, and ended up kissing someone else's husband, Jordon.
In the final commitment ceremony, Megan called Bob an 'amazing person' but said that he just wasn't meant to be 'hers'.
The pair have since tried to remain friends and were pictured together, earlier this year, partying in Manchester.
Megan, who lives in Stoke, is pursuing a career as an actor and as a wellness coach.
Whilst Bob has taken to modelling and has recently launched a podcast with Kat Shoob, 'Recapped At First Sight: The ultimate Married At First Sight UK companion podcast!'
JORDON & ALEXIS
Personal trainer Jordon Mundell was matched with model Alexis Economou in the final wedding week
The couple didn't last long and split just after getting back from their honeymoon at the second commitment ceremony following huge rows
Alexis has gone back to modelling in London and also describes herself as a livestream presenter
Since leaving the show Jordon has returned to Wales to continue his career as a personal trainer
Personal trainer Jordon Mundell was matched with model Alexis Economou in the final wedding week.
The couple didn't last long and split just after getting back from their honeymoon at the second commitment ceremony following huge rows.
It was revealed that Jordon cheated on Alexis with fellow Married At First Sight contestant Megan Wolfe.
Reports after the show also revealed that Jordon had ended his 11 year relationship two days before the series began shooting.
Since leaving the show Jordon has returned to Wales to continue his personal training job.
Alexis, meanwhile, has gone back to modelling in London and also describes herself as a livestream presenter.
She also recently opened up about her ongoing battle with endometriosis.
NIKITA & ANT
Nikita Jasmine and Ant Poole were among the first few contestants to tie the knot but they did not last long
Nikita has since tried to find love again on Celebs Go Dating and is a lingerie model for the underwear brand, Belle Ragazza
Ant has returned to Manchester since leaving the show and is now modelling for brands including Reebok and Foot Asylum
Nikita Jasmine and Ant Poole were among the first few contestants to tie the knot but they did not last long.
Nikita, a sales worker from County Durham was particularly picky, saying she would accept nothing less than what she deserved.
The experts said that they were worried about finding a match for her but paired her with business development worker, Ant, from Manchester.
At first sight Nikita said that the show's producers had 'done the total opposite' or what she asked for.
The pair had explosive rows on their honeymoon, which ended when Nikita threw her cup at Ant and was removed from the show.
Nikita has since tried to find love again on Celebs Go Dating and is a lingerie model for the underwear brand, Belle Ragazza.
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HOUSTON (AP) — A man evicted from a Houston apartment house set fire to the building to lure tenants from their homes then shot five of them — killing three — before officers fatally shot him as firefighters battled the blaze, authorities said.
The attack happened at about 1 a.m. Sunday in a mixed industrial-residential neighborhood in southwest Houston. Police and fire crews responded to the apartment house after reports of the fire, police Chief Troy Finner said.
The gunman opened fire, possibly with a shotgun, on the other tenants as they emerged from the house, Finner said. Two were dead at the scene, and one died at a hospital. Fire teams rescued two other wounded men, who were hospitalized with non-life-threatening injuries, he said.
Michael James told Houston TV station KPRC that he was returning home from work when he was shot in the back.
“I saw the house was on fire, and I saw flames, so I called 911,” James said. “I didn’t get through, so I turned my back and headed back out the driveway. And all of a sudden, boom.”
The man opened fire as the firefighters battled the fire, forcing them to take cover until police officers spotted the prone gunman and fatally shot him, Finner said.
Finner said no firefighters or officers were wounded.
“I’ve seen things I have not seen before in 32 years, and it has happened time and time again,” Finner said. “We just ask that the community come together.”
A neighbor, Robin Ahrens, told the Houston Chronicle that he heard what he initially thought were fireworks as he prepared for work.
“I’m just fortunate that I didn’t go outside because he probably would have shot me too,” he told the newspaper.
He said the shooter, who had colon cancer, was behind on his rent, jobless and was recently notified that he was being evicted.
“Something must have just hit him in the last couple of days really hard to where he just didn’t care,” he said. | https://www.wfla.com/news/national/ap-us-news/ap-police-evicted-houston-man-kills-3-sets-fire-to-lure-them/ | 2022-08-29T21:38:13Z | https://www.wfla.com/news/national/ap-us-news/ap-police-evicted-houston-man-kills-3-sets-fire-to-lure-them/ | false |
FENTON, Mich. (WJRT) - Some Fenton water customers were removed from a boil water advisory after a water main break.
The city said the notice was issued Saturday for the following addresses:
- 600 to 631 Forest Drive
- 704 to 809 Worchester Drive
- 611 to 701 North Road
The city said the first round of post-repair tests came back clear on Sunday and a required second round of tests came back clear again on Monday.
That means residents no longer have to boil their water before using it to drink, cook, brush teeth or make ice.
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Which fishing shirt is best?
The best fishing shirts are comfortable, breathable and nonrestrictive, so you can move about as needed throughout the day. They should also be quick-drying and, ideally, able to wick away water and sweat. For fishing trips that involve a lot of exposure to the sun, the shirt should also have a high enough UPF rating to protect your skin from potential burns. A top fishing shirt is the Columbia PFG Terminal Tackle UPF 50 Long-Sleeve Fishing Shirt.
What to know before you buy a fishing shirt
Comfort, flexibility and breathability
Whether you enjoy fishing for recreation or commercial purposes, your clothes should be comfortable for the activity and environment. One advantage of fishing shirts is that they are usually lightweight and somewhat stretchy. This keeps them from getting in the way as you cast the line, reel in the fish and more. It also sets these shirts apart from standard T-shirts, which are sometimes designed more with style than practicality in mind.
Unlike regular shirts, fishing shirts are also typically more breathable than others. Most are made to let air through them, which is often essential for those who fish in hotter climates. Many of these shirts have built-in vents or perforated holes strategically placed throughout the shirt, such as in the back or under the arms. These vents let air circulate more freely and prevent heat and moisture from getting trapped against the skin.
Moisture-wicking
Most athleticwear has moisture-wicking properties, which can move moisture from the skin to the outer layer of the fabric. Once the moisture reaches the outer material, it can dry more quickly than if it was trapped against the skin. This prevents you from feeling clammy, hot or sticky.
Moisture-wicking does not mean the shirt is waterproof, though. For example, if the garment is soaked in water or sweat, it can still take time to dry fully.
Protection
Most fishing shirts offer at least basic protection from environmental factors such as the sun. Some of this is achieved with long sleeves, thicker materials and full coverage, but many modern shirts also have built-in ultraviolet protection.
Certain high-performance fishing shirts have an ultraviolet protection factor rating of at least 50. The higher the number, the greater the percentage of the fabric blocking the sun’s rays and protecting the skin.
Even if you choose a shirt with ultraviolet protection, it’s still wise to wear sunscreen if you plan to be outdoors for a while. You can also wear a sun hat, sunglasses and a lightweight undershirt for additional protection.
Besides sun protection, some fishing shirts also are water-resistant, which can help keep your skin dry longer. This is especially helpful when wading into waist-deep water or reeling in larger fish that tend to splash.
What to look for in a quality fishing shirt
Material
Many fishing shirts, including performance ones, are made from synthetic materials such as polyester. These fabrics are great for outerwear and athleticwear because they are usually:
- Moisture-wicking
- Stretchy
- Lightweight
- Breathable
- Tear-resistant
- Shrink-resistant
- Quick-drying
- Long-lasting
- Resistant to pilling
Some fishing shirts consist of other materials, such as:
- Wool: Wool is breathable, moisture-wicking and easy to clean. It’s usually found in warmer, heavier garments.
- Cotton: Low-maintenance, breathable and hypoallergenic, cotton is a good choice for casual activities, especially in cooler temperatures. It doesn’t wick away moisture well, though. Depending on the shirt’s thickness, it could also tear more easily than other materials.
- Nylon or spandex blends: Some athletic attire uses a blend of materials, such as nylon or spandex, to make the clothes stretchier. These garments are often less restrictive and more resistant to tearing.
Consider the environment, temperature and type of fishing you’re going to do when choosing the right clothes.
Size and fit
When choosing the right shirt for fishing, look at the size and fit. In terms of fit, there are several options, including:
- Slim fit
- Classic fit
- Regular fit
The fit mainly determines how the shirt conforms to the wearer’s body. It can also affect the garment’s comfort in key areas, such as around the upper back, chest and under the arms. Not every manufacturer lists the fit, so keep this in mind.
As for size, fishing shirts come in virtually every size, including:
- Extra-small
- Small
- Medium
- Large
- Extra-large
- Extra-extra-large
Most shirts come with a sizing chart you can use to compare different options and find the best one for you. If you’re not sure which size to select, measure around the widest part of your:
- Shoulders
- Arms (run the tape measure across the top of your shoulders, ending at the wrist or where you want the shirt cuff to be)
- Chest
- Waist (start about an inch below the belly button)
Sleeves
There are short-sleeved and long-sleeved fishing shirts. Choose longer sleeves if you want more environmental protection or if it’s chilly out. If you’d prefer something nonrestrictive or expect to get your arms wet frequently, go with shorter sleeves.
Pockets
A few shirts for fishing come with two to six pockets. These are usually water-resistant and can hold important accessories such as a cell phone, wallet or keys. Some have zippers or buttons.
Style
Some of these shirts are button-ups, while others are pullovers. You can also find shirts with larger or smaller collars, which can affect coverage at the neck and serve an aesthetic purpose.
Color and pattern
These shirts come in many colors and prints, such as:
- Bright, dark, neutral or pastel colors
- Solid colors
- Patterns, such as stripes or checkers
How much you can expect to spend on a fishing shirt
Fishing shirts cost $15-$45, on average. Those on the higher end are typically made with performance and protection in mind.
Fishing shirt FAQ
What other accessories should I get for fishing?
A. Besides having the right outerwear, such as the shirt and pants or shorts, wear closed shoes, sunglasses and a sun hat. Consider wearing wader pants with closed pockets if you plan on getting wet.
How long do fishing shirts last?
A. This depends on material and environment. Fishing in saltwater, for example, can cause the garment to deteriorate more quickly than if you were to fish in freshwater. A high-quality performance shirt should last for months or even years with proper care.
What is the best fishing shirt to buy?
Top fishing shirt
Columbia PFG Terminal Tackle UPF 50 Long-Sleeve Fishing Shirt
What you need to know: This heavy-duty shirt is durable and offers excellent protection from the sun, making it perfect for all-day fishing trips.
What you’ll love: It features Omni-Shade, which blocks UVA and UVB rays, and Omni-Wick technology, which can remove moisture and keep the skin cool. With a UPF 50 rating, it can also help prevent sunburns. It comes in 18 sizes ranging from extra-small to 6XL.
What you should consider: The shirts run large.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon and Dick’s Sporting Goods
Top fishing shirt for the money
Baleaf Long-Sleeve Shirt UPF 50+ Quick-Dry Fishing Shirt
What you need to know: Lightweight, stretchy and durable, this shirt can last a long time for recreational fishing.
What you’ll love: It’s available in 25 colors and comes in seven sizes, from extra-small to 3X-large. It’s polyester, making it moisture-wicking, fast-drying and reliable for athletic wearers. It also has UPF 50 sun protection. Design options include pullovers and zippers.
What you should consider: The shirt is not shrink-resistant.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
Paramount Outdoors Eag Elite Short-Sleeve Button-Down Performance Fishing Shirt
What you need to know: With a UPF 50 rating, this performance shirt is ideal for anyone who wants all-day comfort in any environment.
What you’ll love: It has laser perforated holes in the back and sides for maximum breathability. Plus, it’s polyester and spandex, so it’s quick-drying, stretchy and moisture-wicking. With a button-down style, you can wear this shirt when not fishing as well. It comes in coastal blue and silver.
What you should consider: It has limited pockets.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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WFO AMARILLO Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Monday, August 29, 2022
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SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
The National Weather Service in Amarillo has issued a
* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
Northwestern Armstrong County in the Panhandle of Texas...
Northern Randall County in the Panhandle of Texas...
Southwestern Carson County in the Panhandle of Texas...
Southern Potter County in the Panhandle of Texas...
* Until 415 PM CDT.
* At 321 PM CDT, severe thunderstorms were located along a line
extending from 6 miles northwest of Washburn to 5 miles west of
Mescalero Park, moving east at 10 mph.
HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Minor damage to roofs, siding, and trees is possible.
Hail damage to vehicles is expected.
* Locations impacted include...
Amarillo, Canyon, Panhandle, Lake Tanglewood, Mescalero Park,
Bushland, Washburn, Timbercreek Canyon and Pantex.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.
Torrential rainfall is occurring with these storms, and may lead to
flash flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded roadways.
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The Company strengthens its healthy foods benefit offering to health plans by advancing post-discharge meal capabilities and expanding meal offerings.
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla., Aug. 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- NationsBenefits®, a leading provider of supplemental benefits, flex cards, and member engagement solutions for health plans, announced today an agreement to acquire DeliverLean™, one of the country's largest food manufacturers specializing in health and wellness. This acquisition is part of NationsBenefits' strategic vision to expand its healthy foods benefit offering to meet the ever-growing needs of health plans with Medicare Advantage (MA) and Part D Plans. DeliverLean's food as medicine solution, which is being introduced with the NationsMarket brand name, will help MA plan members and low-income populations to live healthier by addressing nutrition and providing specific and actionable direction to motivate behavioral changes in their diets.
"The DeliverLean team has created the best healthy, prepared meals solution in the market," said Glenn M. Parker, M.D., Founder and CEO at NationsBenefits. "By joining forces and expanding our healthy foods suite of solutions, this enhances our strategy of using supplemental benefits to improve member outcomes."
With a growing demand for home-delivered, nutritionally focused products such as groceries, fresh produce, and prepared meals, NationsBenefits can help Medicare beneficiaries achieve better health and wellness by providing them with convenient and easy-to-use products. The healthy foods benefit offering is designed to improve members' health and satisfaction while reducing overall health care costs.
"After a decade-long journey, DeliverLean is thrilled to announce our acquisition by NationsBenefits, a premier healthcare provider who shares our food as medicine approach. It's unique for a healthcare provider to invest in a food company to ultimately improve outcomes and lower health care costs by empowering people through fresh, healthy food," said Scott Harris, CEO and Founder of DeliverLean. "NationsBenefits' model of centralizing benefits allows us to serve health plan members nationally."
Scott Harris will continue to lead this division, as a part of NationsBenefits.
The Company combines its experienced team and clinical expertise to provide management strategies that enhance relationships between partners and members and improve health care quality while providing access to resources, education, and engagement tools to provide a true food as medicine benefit.
The acquisition is expected to close in the third quarter of 2022.
About NationsBenefits:
NationsBenefits is a leading member engagement, benefits administration, and healthcare company that partners with managed care organizations to provide innovative healthcare solutions aimed at driving growth, reducing costs, and delighting members. Through its comprehensive suite of innovative supplemental benefits, payments platform, and member engagement solutions, NationsBenefits helps health plans deliver high-quality benefits to their members that help address social determinants of health and improve member health outcomes and satisfaction. The Company's compliance-focused infrastructure, proprietary technology systems, and premier service delivery model allow NationsBenefits' health plan partners to deliver high-quality, value-based care to millions of members. To learn more, visit NationsBenefits.com.
About DeliverLean:
As one of the nation's largest food manufacturers specializing in health and wellness, DeliverLean is disrupting how people consume food, touching every demographic and region with meaningful health outcomes. Founded in 2011 by entrepreneur Scott Harris, DeliverLean's 360-approach to healthy eating spans two large-scale food manufacturing divisions: DeliverLean CARE, a specialized manufacturer of fresh, prepared meals designed to meet the unique dietary needs of seniors, and GRBNGO, a leading pre-packaged grab-and-go food service solution catering to airports, hotels, hospitals, schools, convention centers, and stadiums, delivering throughout the southeast. DeliverLean CARE partners with health insurance providers to deliver meals to individuals through Medicare Advantage programs and directly to consumers, giving members access to healthy post-discharge and chronic care meals that lead to an improved quality of life and continued independence at home. DeliverLean produces over ten million meals annually from its 65,000 square foot SQF audited, USDA/FDA-certified commercial production. To learn more, visit DeliverLean.com.
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Prosecutor: Two From Atlantic City, NJ, Charged for Fatally Shooting Philadelphia Man
New details
- Two men have been charged in connection to a fatal shooting in Atlantic City late last week.
- One is in custody and the other, deemed armed and dangerous, is being sought by police.
The Atlantic County Prosecutor's Office says two men from Atlantic City have been charged in connection to the shooting death of 31-year-old Jordan Eaddy of Philadelphia last Thursday, August 25th, in the area of the 1300 block of Baltic Avenue.
In custody
32-year-old Aaron Callahan was arrested without incident and has been charged with murder, conspiracy to commit murder, unlawful possession of a weapon, and possession of a weapon for an unlawful purpose. He is currently being held in the Atlantic County Justice Facility.
Wanted by police
The Atlantic County Prosecutor’s Office is seeking help from the public with locating 47-year-old Kenneth Creek, also from Atlantic City. He is also facing murder and weapon-related charges.
What to do
Police say Creek is armed and dangerous and, if spotted, do not approach him. Any information on Creek’s whereabouts should be reported to the Atlantic County Prosecutor’s Office at (609) 909-7800 or Crime Stoppers at (609) 652-1234.
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Morris A. Johnson
On Saturday, August 20th, Morris Johnson passed away peacefully at the age of 85. Morris was born in International Falls, MN on August 3rd, 1937. He was the eldest son of Alfred and Margaret (Mannausau) Johnson, the beloved husband of Catherine Kiefer Johnson, the proud father of Raymond (Sarah), Sigmond (Caroline), Armond (Brenda) and Normond, the admiring grandfather of Erica (Rob), Hannah (Bryan), Arielle, Aaron, Morgan, Abigail, Talon, Penelope, Kendall and adoring great grandfather to Graelynn. He was the brother of Dale (Jan) Johnson and Margaret (David) Lane. He was a plant biochemist committed to expanding our knowledge of science.
He graduated from International Falls High School. He earned his BS & MS in chemistry from North Dakota State University (NDSU). At NDSU he met Cathy, his best friend and partner in life. They were married on August 19th, 1961, in Perham, MN. Upon completion of their graduate studies at NDSU, they moved to Corvallis, Oregon, where Morris continued his education. On completion of his PhD in biochemistry at Oregon State University (OSU), he took a position at the Institute of Paper Chemistry (IPC) in Appleton, WI. For 23 years he guided graduate students and did research in plant biochemistry. His group successfully cloned Douglas fir trees. He also worked on understanding cancer mechanisms.
He was a lifelong learner. To keep abreast with the latest scientific developments, he visited laboratories throughout the world. He and Cathy attended science meetings in the US, Canada, Sweden, Finland, Germany, Austria, Mexico and Japan where Morris presented his research findings.
After his employment at IPC, he taught chemistry and physics for 10 years at Fox Valley Technical College in Appleton, WI. He enjoyed working with plants in the lab and in his garden. He loved his horses, dogs, cats, the accordion and eclectic music collection.
After their retirement in 1999, Morris and Cathy enjoyed time with their children and grandchildren. They moved from their Greenville home to Weston to be closer to family. Morris will be greatly missed by his wife, family, friends, and his cats Rusty and Milo.
He was preceded in death by his parents Alfred & Margaret, parents-in-law Peter & Rose Kiefer, his sister Rosemary, sister-in-law Rose Kennelly, and daughter-in-law Roxanne Edel Johnson.
Memorials may be directed to the “Johnson Family Scholarship” fund at Fox Valley Technical College in Appleton, WI. The scholarship supports single parents who are pursuing a degree in a science-based program (fvtc.edu/donate). The family would like to thank the staff of Pride TLC and Dr. Isaacson for their compassionate care. The funeral services were held on August 23rd at Highland Memorial Park Cemetery in Appleton, WI
Judith A. Richards
Judith Ann Richards, age 81, passed away on Wednesday August 24, 2022, surrounded by her family.
Judith was born on October 31, 1940, in Tomahawk, Wisconsin. She is the daughter of the late Raymond B. and Leona W. (Pinkowsky) Winnie. On April 27, 1963, she married Vincent B. Richards, Jr. at St. Anne’s Catholic Church, Wausau. After 47 beautiful and memorable years together, Vincent preceded her in death in 2010.
Judith will be remembered and deeply missed by her family and friends. She belonged to the Friendly Twelve Homemakers Group since 1964 as well as a local “Sewing” Club. In the past years, she visited the elderly through St. Matthew’s Home Ministry Program and was part of the quilting group which made the quilts for the poor and the needy.
Faith, Family, and Friends were the most important part of her life. She found joy in the simple things of life: tending to her flower gardens, feeding and watching the birds, reading a good book, bonding with her cat, sitting out on her patio enjoying nature, listening to music, and working on puzzles.
She is survived by her children Mark (Cassie) Richards, Alan (Candy) Richards, and Brian Richards; her grandchildren, Jonica (Dominic) Richards, Jayden (Will Varline) Richards, and Jensen Richards; her siblings, Arvilla (Richard) Bender, Duane Winnie, and Gail Winnie, her brothers and sisters-in-law, James (Kay) Richards, Joan (Allen) Liegel, Ruth (Roger) Wagner, and Kathleen Hain.
She is preceded in death by her husband Vincent, his parents, her parents, and her sister-in-law Mary Winnie.
A memorial service will be held at 12:00 p.m. on Friday, September 2, 2022, at St. Matthew’s Catholic Church. Visitation will take place prior to service starting at 10:00 a.m. Helke Funeral Home is assisting the family with arrangements.
Mom, your life is a beautiful memory.
Your absence a silent grief,
You sleep in “God’s beautiful garden”
In the sunshine of perfect peace.
Jerry L. Klinger
With family surrounding him, Jerry Lee Klinger, went to meet Jesus on Friday, August 26, 2022.
Jerry was born October 3, 1944. During his 77 years, he was a true disciple. He loved the Lord and shared his faith with everyone he met. His faith, family and friends were what were most important to him.
He was born in Wausau, WI to Vernetta (Mitzie) and Melvin Klinger. He married Carol Kufahl on August 25, 1962, and had three beautiful daughters, LoriAnn, Shari and Lisa. He later married Dolores (Dee) Myszka on June 30, 1979.
Jerry lived his life to the fullest and always had a smile on his face. Even when met with obstacles and health struggles, he never let that stop him from being an amazingly kind and loving person. He enjoyed spending time at his cottage on Lake Nokomis, hunting, camping, kayaking, and going to the racetrack. Following his retirement from Kolbe and Kolbe, he had the opportunity to travel and loved going to gospel concerts.
He was a lifelong member of Trinity Lutheran Church. Once retired, he volunteered putting together the weekly bulletins. He loved spreading the word of God and was inspired when he went on a missionary trip to Seattle, WA where he helped remodel a church.
Jerry is survived by his daughters, LoriAnn (Michael) Jennejohn, Shari (Dave) Berna, Lisa (Kelly) Bryan; grandchildren, Heather (Andy) Rindfleisch, Josh Jennejohn (Deana Borchardt), Mitchell Bryan (Mikelti Metropolus); great-grandchildren, Brent Jennejohn and Austin Rindfleisch; and his brother, James (Jeanne) Klinger. Jerry also had many close friends who he considered as family. He was preceded in death by his parents and spouses, along with many extended family members.
The family would like to thank the wonderful people at DaVita Dialysis of Wausau and Shawano, and at North Central Health Care Aquatic Therapy Center, who loving cared for Jerry for so many years. Thank you to drivers who safely transported him to dialysis. And, thank you also to the doctors and nurses from Saint Joseph’s Hospital Surgical ICU whose efforts and compassion will not be forgotten.
A visitation will be held Thursday, September 1, 2022 at Helke Funeral Home, 302 Spruce Street, Wausau from 4:00 pm to 7:00 pm. Services will be held Friday, September 2, 2022 at 11:30 am at Trinity Lutheran Church, 501 Stewart Avenue, Wausau with visitation beginning at 10:00 am. To attend the service via livestream, please visit this page at the time of the service.
Ruth L. Volhard
Ruth L. Volhard, 89 died Friday, August 26, 2022 at Acorn Hill Senior Living Community, Mosinee.
She was born April 28, 1933 in town of Cassel, daughter of the late George and Margaret (Michlig) Seliger. On August 31, 1949 she married Sylvester Volhard at St. Mary Catholic Church, Marathon. He preceded her in death on March 28, 2018.
Ruth was a kind, unassuming, giving person. She was very proud of her grandchildren as she provided them with love, support, values, and many home cooked meals. Nothing brought a bigger smile to her face than spending time with her precious great-grandchildren.
Survivors include her son, David Volhard; mother of her grandchildren and close friend, Julie Volhard (Leon Stahel); grandchildren, Joshua (Amy Stanczyk), Nicholas (Hannah) and Sarah (Ryan) Niemuth; great-grandchildren, Liam, Taylor and Dylan; brothers, Hugo Seliger and Cyril (Virginia) Seliger; sister-in-law and dear friend, Mary Ann Seliger; and many caring nieces and nephews.
Besides her parents and husband, Sylvester, she was preceded in death by brothers, Leonard, Marvin, Arnold, Melvin, Phillip and George and a sister, Hildegard.
The funeral Mass will be celebrated 11:00 a.m. Wednesday, August 31, 2022 at St. Mary Catholic Church, Marathon. Rev. Msgr. Joseph Diermeier will preside. Burial will be in the parish cemetery. Visitation will be Wednesday from 10:00 a.m. until the time of services all at the church.
Online condolences may be expressed at www.petersonkraemer.com
Anthony Kuklinski
Anthony “Tony” Kuklinski, 82, Hatley, was met by the angels, and peacefully taken to heaven, Saturday August 27, 2022.
He was born February 20, 1940, in Mosinee, son of the late Daniel and Martha (Wanta) Kuklinski. On December 28, 1963, he married MaryAnn Buchkowski at St. Florian Catholic Church, Hatley. She survives.
Tony proudly served his country in the US Army during the Viet Nam War and was a member of the Hatley American Legion Post No. 471. After his service time, he had been employed at Marathon Box Corporation for over 47 years.
Through the years, Tony was the neighborhood repairman. He was a master Jack of all trades, man of many talents and could fix or invent whatever was needed to complete a mechanical task. He served Town of Ringle for over 30 years with numerous tasks but primarily as providing building permits. Tony and MaryAnn loved listening to polkas and watching their favorite TV shows, they loved to go bumming, taking day trips and checking on their furry grandpups on a daily basis.
Survivors include the love of his life, MaryAnn; son, Eddie (Lori) Kuklinski, Hatley; granddaughter, Tiffany (Troy) Pluger, Hatley; great grandchildren, Piper, Liam and Blaine; siblings, Norbert Kuklinski, Eland, brother-in-law Lawrence Berlik (Wausau), Betty (Tom) Linke, Tigerton, Elsie Hessey, Weston, Gerald (Linda) Kuklinski, Birnamwood, Jerome (Charlotte) Kuklinski, Ringle, Roger (June) Kuklinski, Hatley; brothers and sisters-in-law, Marty (Richard)
Zyduck, Hatley, Harry (Pat) Buchkowski, Weston, Arlene (Jim) Matz, Wittenberg, Mike (Rose) Buchkowski, Hatley, Linda (Jeff) Thums, Kronenwetter, Laura (Perry) Schmidt, Hatley, Ted (Kay) Buchkowski, Hatley; other very special people in his life include-like a son, John “Pork Chop” Suchomski; like a daughter, Tracey Gusman; nephews, Harry “JR” Buchkowski and Joe Schmidt; great nephew, Hunter Gusman; special friends, Jeff and Angie; many nieces, nephews, other relatives and friends.
Besides his parents, he was preceded in death by a granddaughter, Kimberly Kuklinski, mother and father-in-law, Edward and Catherine Buchkowski, and infant sister, Eva, sister, Darlene Berlik and brother, Gary ‘Poncho” Kuklinski; in-laws, Virginia Pochinski, Alfred Buchkowski and Tom Hessey.
The Funeral Mass will be celebrated at 11:00 a.m. Thursday September 1, 2022, at St. Florian Catholic Church, Hatley. Rev. Greg Bohren will preside. Burial will be in the parish cemetery. Visitation will be on Thursday from 9:00 a.m. until the time of services at the church. In lieu of flowers, a memorial fund is being established in care of the family.
Peterson/Kraemer Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. Online condolences may be expressed at www.petersonkraemer.com
Donald A. Buchberger
Donald A. “Don” Buchberger, 79, Wausau, passed away peacefully at Aspirus Wausau Hospital on Friday, August 26, 2022.
He was born February 10, 1943, in Wausau, son of the late Leo and Florence (Graveen) Buchberger. On April 4, 1964, he married his high school sweetheart, Arlene Dombeck. They were married for 58 years. She survives.
He was a proud 1962 graduate of Newman High School where he established and continued friendships with fellow classmates throughout his life.
Don had a very strong work ethic which he passed on to his family. He retired after 35 years of employment with the former Marathon Electric Corporation as an Area Supervisor.
He had a fun-loving nature and loved to laugh, tease, and joke around.
Don was an avid Brewers fan and shared his love for the sport with his granddaughters. He enjoyed attending his granddaughters sporting events and would beam with pride, he was their biggest fan!
Family was everything to Don. He loved his family more than words can express and did everything humanly possible to encourage and support them. He was extremely proud of them and was often caught tearing up with pride.
Don was a man of deep faith. He had a very strong Catholic faith which remained steady throughout his illness. While ill he wanted more than anything to attend mass in church. On September 1st, he will finally return to church as we celebrate his life.
Don and Arlene were blessed to have the love, support, and friendship of their wonderful neighbors and friends through the years, to whom they are forever grateful.
Survivors include his wife, Arlene; his children, Michele (Andy) Kettner, Wausau, Lynn (Wade) Helke, Mosinee, Todd Buchberger, Rothschild; special nephew, David Dombeck, Middleton; three granddaughters, Jordyn Kettner, Jenna Kettner, Savannah Buchberger; goddaughter Shelley Prochnow; brother, Roger Buchberger, Wausau; step-brother, Ric (Joan) Zastrow and step-sister, Mary Lemirand; brother-in-law, Robert Rauscher and sister-in-law, Helen Dombeck; nieces, nephews, and other relatives and friends.
He was preceded in death by his parents Leo & Florence Buchberger, three sisters, Delores Jablonski, Grace Rauscher, Marlene Buchberger, his mother- and father-in-law Theresa and Ted Dombeck, his brother-in-law Myron Dombeck, and twin granddaughters Allison and Terese Kettner.
The family would like to thank the doctors, nurses, and the health care team at Aspirus & Dr. Pablo Abrego and his staff at Marshfield Clinic for their exceptional care.
The Funeral Mass will be celebrated at 11:00 a.m. Thursday September 1, 2022, at St. Michael Catholic Church, Wausau. Rev. Msgr. Mark Pierce will preside. Burial will be in Restlawn Memorial Park, Wausau. Visitation will be on Thursday from 9:30 a.m. until the time of services at the church.
Peterson/Kraemer Funeral Home, Wausau, is in charge of arrangements. Online condolences may be expressed at www.petersonkraemer.com
Neil R. Kuckkahn
Neil Raymond Kuckkahn passed away August 20th, 2022 at the age of 89 at home in Mosinee with his cherished family nearby.
Neil was born May 13, 1933 to the late William Kuckkahn and Effie (Larson) Kuckkahn.
He lost many beloved family members, his younger sister Kathy Budreau, his brother William (Bill) Kuckkahn, his sisters in law, Delores (Bill Kuckkahn), Diane (Dale) Kuckkahn), Margaret (Eugene Figlinski), nephew Gregy Kuckkahn and nieces Darci Clark and Terry Kuckkahn.
He graduated from Arbor Vitae Woodruff school in 1951. In 1953 he was drafted in the Korean conflict and stationed in England for 2 years.
His duty assignment was Company B with the 804th Engineer Aviation Battalion as an ordinance mechanic. After discharge he became employed by Coca Cola Co and later by Pierce Manufacturing in Appleton WI. He continued working in the heavy equipment industry the rest of his working life, retiring from Galvin Tractor.
Neil married his wife Doris Figlinski Kuckkahn on October 5th, 1960. They had 5 children, Neil II, Susan, Kelly (Tim) Pozorski, Diane (Kenneth Iczkowski), Laurie Kuckkahn (Michael Brod).
His beloved grandchildren, Chaise Kuckkahn (Kristin Selchow), Bryce Krause (Sarah) Hitzemann), Brennen Pozorski, Haley Iczikowski and Blake Pozorski and great grandchildren, Jacob, Lily Jo and Grace Kuckkahn.
Neil was very talented and used his talents to help others. He was known for restoring salvaged vehicles and restoring them to pristine condition.
He was diligent and meticulous in all he did. Neil was baptized as one of Jehovah’s Witnesses on March 28th, 1959 . Neil loved people and would often share his Bible based hope for the future of the earth and the relief that would be given to all those who lost loved ones in death based on the promise of Christs ransom.
He was always concerned when he heard of someone in need and made sure that he contributed his talents in whatever way he could, whether fixing an automobile or making home repairs or in any other way he was able.
He was the rock and anchor of his family and he will be
sorely missed.
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Dorothy E. Mortenson
Dorothy E. Mortenson, 90, of the town of Plover, died on Friday, August 26, 2022, at her home surrounded by family.
Dorothy was born on May 28, 1932, in the town of Easton, the daughter of Lester and Clara (Geurink) TenHaken.
On September 2, 1950, Dorothy was united in marriage to Clifford Mortenson at the Forestville Reformed Church in the town of Easton. Clifford preceded her in death on June 15, 1998.
Faith and family were very important parts of Dorothy’s life. She enjoyed gospel music and attended several Gaither Vocal Band concerts. She was a member of Hogarty Community Church and hosted women’s bible studies in her home. Dorothy had a kind heart and would call family and friends to chat. She would also reach out to check in with people that lost loved ones. People she met soon became her friends. Dorothy enjoyed the time spent with family and enjoyed attending her grandchildren’s and great-grandchildren’s events. She had a green thumb and loved tending to her flower gardens. Christmas was a special time for Dorothy and she enjoyed baking and making candy for her family and friends. Dorothy attended many holstien shows to watch family show and was a regular at Aniwa baseball games.
Dorothy is survived by her children, Lawrence (Cindy) Mortenson, Theresa (Bob) Jansen, Jerome (Joan) Mortenson and Roger (Karen) Mortenson; grandchildren, Nathan (Beth Woodruff) Jansen, Kyle (Kirsten) Jansen, Betsy (Will) Cummings, Laura (Michael) Ferguson, Heidi (Aaron Clark) Mortenson, Denton (McCartney) Mortenson and Cory Mortenson; great-grandchildren, Anders, Ellis, Calvin, Sophia, Owen and Levi; brother-in-law, Rodney (Karen) Mortenson and sister-in-law, Ruth TenHaken.
Dorothy was preceded in death by her husband; parents and a brother, Victor TenHaken.
A funeral service will be held at 11 AM on Saturday, September 3, 2022 at Hogarty Community Church. Rev. Larry TenHaken will officiate. Burial will be in Hogarty Riverside Cemetery. Visitation will be on Saturday from 9AM until the time of service at the church.
Schmidt & Schulta Funeral Home, Birnamwood is assisting the family with funeral arrangements. Memories and messages of support may be shared at schmidtschulta.com.
Diane (Di) Louise Kane
Diane (Di) Louise Kane, age 65, passed away surrounded by her loved ones Monday, August
22, 2022 at Marshfield Medical Center in Weston, WI.
Diane was born March 20, 1957 in Evanston, IL. She moved to Hazelhurst, WI in 1973 and
instantly became the heart and soul of Minocqua. She graduated from the State College of
Beauty in 1977 and served as a cosmetologist for 41 years. Diane was a woman of deep faith,
with the biggest heart, an abundance of Irish blessings, and contagious laugh. She lovingly
married her husband, Thomas Smigiel June 12th, 2004 where they served as active members
of the Holy Family Catholic Church community. She was loved by many (including her pets) and
will be remembered by all who were lucky enough to experience her vibrant soul.
Preceded in death by her parents Eleanor and George Kane and brother Roger Kane. Diane is
survived by her husband Thomas Smigiel, and children Jennifer Kelter, Joseph Kelter and wife
Charlene Kelter; her siblings, Janet (Kane) Beck and husband Warren Beck, Nancy (Kane)
Stewart, Marian Kane-Grade, Kevin Kane, David Kane; nieces and nephews Todd Mark, Kelly
(Kane) Altschwager and husband Andrew Altschwager, Hattie Kane, Liam Kane-Grade, Finola
Kane-Grade, Brighin Kane-Grade, Taylor Kane and wife Shelby Kane, Evan Kane;
grandchildren Cash Altschwager, Cole Altschager, Madeline Kelter, Matthias Kelter, Miles Kelter,
Abigail Newcomb, and E.J. Newcomb, Katie Mark, Josh Mark; extended family and loved ones
in Chicago, IL.
To honor Diane, we are holding a Celebration of Life Saturday, August 27th, 2022 from 3:00 PM
CST – sunset at the Arbor Vitae Fireman’s Park 10672 Big Arbor Vitae Drive, Arbor Vitae, WI
54568.
There will be a Requiem Service held at Holy Family Catholic Church at a later date. Details to
come. A mass in Diane’s name will be November 29th at Holy Family Catholic Church.
Di gave her whole life to so many causes throughout her entire life. Her heart was so big. Some
of you have reached out and asked how you may help. If you would like to send donations;
please send it to her nephew: Joe Kelter – 5514 Rose St. Weston, WI 54476
Venmo – @Joseph-Kelter
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EL SEGUNDO, Calif., Aug. 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Neopets today began updating individuals through its communication channels regarding a data incident that may have affected players' information. Neopets previously communicated about this incident to players on July 21, 2022, and August 1, 2022. This notice provides details about the incident, our response, and available resources. Additional information about this incident is also available on our website www.neopets.com.
On July 20, 2022, Neopets was alerted to activity indicating unauthorized access by a third party to our IT systems. We took immediate steps to shut down further access to the affected systems and we have not seen any unauthorized activity since that time. We also launched an investigation assisted by a leading forensics firm and engaged with law enforcement. On August 10, 2022, Neopets determined that the event resulted in unauthorized access to, and in some cases, download of, player personal information.
After our investigation, we have determined that for past and present Neopets players, affected information may include the data provided when registering for or playing Neopets, including name, email address, username, date of birth, gender, IP address, Neopets PIN, hashed password, as well as data about a player's pet, game play, and other information provided to Neopets. For players that played prior to 2015, the information also could have included non-hashed, but inactive, passwords. This information appears to have been accessed and potentially downloaded between January 3-February 5, 2021, or July 16-19, 2022.
We do not store users' government issued identification numbers, bank account information, or payment card information.
Neopets is committed to safeguarding our players' personal information. As part of our ongoing commitment to the safety and privacy of the Neopets' player information in our care, we have reset players' passwords and are working on adding multi-factor authentication to better safeguard your account access. We have also enhanced the protection of our systems, including by further strengthening our network monitoring, authentication, and system protection.
If you used your Neopets password on other websites, we recommend that you change your passwords for those accounts as well. In general, it is a good idea to use different passwords across different applications and choose strong passwords.
In addition to changing your passwords, we recommend you do the following:
- While we are not aware of any misuse of your information, it is always a good practice to remain vigilant against threats of identity theft or fraud, and to regularly review and monitor your account statements and credit history for any signs of unauthorized transactions or activity. If you ever suspect that you are the victim of identity theft or fraud, you can contact your local police.
- Additionally, it is always a good idea to be alert for "phishing" emails by someone who acts like they know you or are a company that you may do business with and requests sensitive information over email, such as passwords, government identification numbers, or bank account information.
If you have questions regarding this notice, we invite you to reach out to us through our normal support channels with any questions or concerns you might have regarding this incident or the security of your account. Additional information about this incident is also available on our website www.neopets.com.
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NEW YORK, Aug. 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --
WHY: Rosen Law Firm, a global investor rights law firm, continues to investigate potential securities claims on behalf of shareholders of Blueprint Medicines Corporation (NASDAQ: BPMC) resulting from allegations that Blueprint Medicines may have issued materially misleading business information to the investing public.
SO WHAT: If you purchased Blueprint Medicines securities you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out of pocket fees or costs through a contingency fee arrangement. The Rosen Law Firm is preparing a class action seeking recovery of investor losses.
WHAT TO DO NEXT: To join the prospective class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=8186 or call Phillip Kim, Esq. toll-free at 866-767-3653 or email pkim@rosenlegal.com or cases@rosenlegal.com for information on the class action.
WHAT IS THIS ABOUT: On August 17, 2022, before trading hours, Blueprint Medicines announced top-line results from the registrational Part 2 of its PIONEER clinical trial of AYVAKIT® (avapritinib) in patients with non-advanced systemic mastocytosis (SM). The results showed a deterioration in the absolute improvement in the symptom score from 15.6 points in this most recent trial versus 19.7 in Phase 1.
On this news, Blueprint Medicine' share price fell $7.38 per share, or 10%, to close at $61.17 per share on August 17, 2022, on unusually heavy trading volume.
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Following a series of legislative wins in recent weeks, President Joe Biden will soon hit the road to tout what the White House and Democrats see as major accomplishments in the first half of his term.
"I'm about to sign the Inflation Reduction Act into law, one of the most significant laws in our history. Let me say from the start with this law, the American people won, and the special interests lost," said President Biden.
But the big question is, will it be enough to push back political headwinds and the president's low approval ratings to propel Democrats to success this fall?
"We know historically the party that's in power, as represented by which party is in control of the White House, tends to lose seats and emerge from elections. So, Democrats are bracing to lose seats in the House and the Senate," said Andra Gillespie, an associate professor at Emory University.
While the president has seen his popularity increase slightly in recent weeks, his standing among voters is still at historic lows, and it could drag Democrats down with him this November.
But some in the president's party now see a rare silver lining after President Biden signed major legislation on infrastructure, gun reform, and, more recently, the Inflation Reduction Act, which Democrats say will reduce greenhouse gas emissions and lower health care costs for Americans.
"We've done a lot. Have we done everything? But we've done enough. More so than any other president in modern-day history. And when you look at what Joe Biden has accomplished, legislative-wise and policy-wise, that's number one," said Antjuan Seawright, a Democratic strategist.
Democrats are in part focusing their message on abortion rights and legislative wins, while Republicans work to seize an opportunity to attack the president's record amid historically high inflation.
Republicans say voters are just ready for a change.
"We're working incredibly hard. Republicans, the RNC, and our sister committees. We are not taking a single thing for granted. We know that Americans are struggling under Biden's failed administration," said RNC Communications Director Danielle Alvarez.
Both Republican and Democratic National Committees boast an army of volunteers and operatives to motivate key groups of voters in states that could decide which party controls congress.
"There are very few persuadable people in the electorate right now. Most people probably have a good idea of whether or not they're voting for Democrats versus Republicans in the election. The bigger issue for Democrats is to make sure that they mobilize as much as possible. And this is true for Republicans as well," said Gillespie.
Republicans say they have opened more than 35 community centers nationwide in the past year to reach out to minority groups to increase support ahead of the midterms. While Democrats say they have invested in their ground game by hiring staff in key states, they plan on blasting their message through ad campaigns nationally and in key states.
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WillemHolleeder was one of the most notorious criminals inAmsterdam. He was convicted of murdering five people including one of his accomplices in the infamous kidnapping of Alfred “Freddy” Heineken. Holleeder may never have been sentenced to life in prison if it wasn’t for his sister Astrid’s cooperation with the authorities.
“He would go after me and I would go after him,” she told journalist Patrick Radden Keefe. “I’m not going to sit around and wait while he is killing everybody.”
Keefe tells Astrid’s story and more in “Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks.” It’s a collection of 12 stories he’s written for The New Yorker over the past 12 years.
It includes a profile of infamous Mexican drug lord Joaquín Archivaldo Guzmán Loera or “El Chapo.” He asked Keefe to ghostwrite his memoir.
Keefe includes a retrospective on the career of television producer Mark Burnett who’s credited with launching former President Donald Trump’s television career through “The Apprentice.”
We talk to Keefe about those who live on the fringes.
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The state attorney general's office and the owner of several entertainment venues in western Massachusetts have reached a settlement over accusations of labor law violations.
Among other properties, Eric Suher owns the Calvin Theatre and the Iron Horse Music Hall in Northampton.
In June of 2021, the office of Attorney General Maura Healey announced it was fining him more than $100,000, alleging he did not pay employees on time and failed to pay sick time.
Suher appealed, and later entered settlement talks with Healey's office. He has now agreed to pay roughly $25,000 in penalties and almost $14,000 in restitution to employees.
Lindsey Musielak, who worked for Suher for three years, said she's been notified she'll get almost $800.
"I think that the Attorney General's office really worked hard on our behalf and really went up to bat for us," Musielak said.
Neither Suher nor his lawyer could be reached for comment.
As part of the agreement, Suher did not admit liability but agreed to follow the state's labor laws going forward.
While the penalty total in the settlement agreement is about a quarter of the original fine, the restitution for employees increased significantly from an earlier amount of $1,991.76.
"In the course of an appeal, our office may learn additional information that justifies a modification of the original citations," Healey's office said. "We may also settle an appeal in order to provide certainty. As a result of this settlement, workers will be receiving thousands more in restitution."
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Pakistan floods: UN to call for USD 160 mn in emergency aid today
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DSGMC delegation meets Pakistan High Commission official over abduction of Sikh girl, demands special grievance cell for minorities | https://www.timesnownews.com/world/pakistan-floods-un-to-call-for-usd-160-mn-in-emergency-aid-today-article-93863990 | 2022-08-29T21:52:40Z | https://www.timesnownews.com/world/pakistan-floods-un-to-call-for-usd-160-mn-in-emergency-aid-today-article-93863990 | true |
Phoenix is seeing an alarming rise in people with skin burns from falling on hot pavement. Elderly people usually make up the small number of cases, but unhoused people account for much of the surge.
Copyright 2022 NPR
Phoenix is seeing an alarming rise in people with skin burns from falling on hot pavement. Elderly people usually make up the small number of cases, but unhoused people account for much of the surge.
Copyright 2022 NPR | https://www.apr.org/2022-08-29/lack-of-homes-for-people-are-leading-to-more-burns-from-hot-pavement-in-phoenix | 2022-08-29T21:53:56Z | https://www.apr.org/2022-08-29/lack-of-homes-for-people-are-leading-to-more-burns-from-hot-pavement-in-phoenix | false |
First Del Monte Shopping Center Wine Walk to benefit children in need
MONTEREY, Calif. (KION-TV)- The Del Monte Shopping Center is hosting its first Summer Wine Walk this Wednesday to benefit the local nonprofit Kinship Center.
From 5 p.m. to 7 p.m., eight local wineries and a brewery will be at the shopping center, paired with a shopping center restaurant. They will be placed in front of stores throughout the mall.
The community is invited to come out and enjoy the festivities with live music, and a raffle also being featured.
Tickets can be bought at the door or ahead of time here.
Tickets are $25 and all proceeds benefit local nonprofit Kinship Center, which provides foster care, children’s mental health, and relative caregiver support services to Central Coast communities. | https://kion546.com/news/2022/08/29/first-del-monte-shopping-center-wine-walk-to-benefit-children-in-need/ | 2022-08-29T21:55:09Z | https://kion546.com/news/2022/08/29/first-del-monte-shopping-center-wine-walk-to-benefit-children-in-need/ | true |
WFO MIDLAND/ODESSA Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Monday, August 29, 2022
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Midland/Odessa TX
343 PM CDT Mon Aug 29 2022
...Strong thunderstorms will impact portions of west central Reeves,
northern Jeff Davis and east central Culberson Counties through 430
PM CDT...
At 343 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking strong thunderstorms along
a line extending from 13 miles northeast of Kent to near Plateau.
Movement was south at 5 mph.
HAZARD...Wind gusts of 50 to 55 mph and half inch hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects. Minor damage to outdoor objects is
possible.
Locations impacted include...
Kent and Plateau.
This includes the following highways...
Interstate 10 between mile markers 152 and 191.
Interstate 20 between mile markers 0 and 8.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
Torrential rainfall is also occurring with these storms and may lead
to localized flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded
roadways.
Frequent cloud to ground lightning is occurring with these storms.
Lightning can strike 10 miles away from a thunderstorm. Seek a safe
shelter inside a building or vehicle.
LAT...LON 3107 10391 3099 10466 3117 10461 3138 10404
TIME...MOT...LOC 2043Z 359DEG 5KT 3119 10405 3111 10451
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.50 IN
MAX WIND GUST...55 MPH
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of northeastern Bailey
and northwestern Lamb Counties through 415 PM CDT...
At 343 PM CDT, a strong thunderstorm was located 8 miles east of
Muleshoe and was nearly stationary.
HAZARD...Wind gusts of to 55 mph.
unsecured objects.
Earth.
Torrential rainfall is also occurring with this storm and may lead
roadways. If outdoors, seek shelter inside a building.
LAT...LON 3431 10267 3431 10246 3417 10238 3409 10264
TIME...MOT...LOC 2043Z 330DEG 4KT 3424 10258
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.00 IN
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 415 PM CDT
FOR NORTHWESTERN ARMSTRONG...NORTHERN RANDALL...SOUTHWESTERN CARSON
AND SOUTHEASTERN POTTER COUNTIES...
At 345 PM CDT, severe thunderstorms were located along a line
extending from Washburn to 3 miles northeast of Mescalero Park,
moving east at 10 mph.
HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail.
IMPACT...Minor damage to roofs, siding, and trees is possible. Hail
damage to vehicles is expected.
Amarillo, Canyon, Panhandle, Lake Tanglewood, Mescalero Park,
Washburn, Timbercreek Canyon and Pantex.
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.
Torrential rainfall is occurring with these storms, and may lead to
flash flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded roadways.
The National Weather Service in El Paso has issued a
* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
North central Hudspeth County in western Texas...
* Until 330 PM MDT.
* At 246 PM MDT, a severe thunderstorm was located 11 miles west of
Cornudas, moving southeast at 10 mph.
HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Hail damage to vehicles is expected. Expect wind damage
to roofs, siding, and trees.
* This severe thunderstorm will remain over mainly rural areas of
north central Hudspeth County.
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Panthers acquire WR Laviska Shenault from Jags
The Jacksonville Jaguars traded wide receiver Laviska Shenault to the Carolina Panthers on Monday.
Jacksonville will receive "undisclosed draft compensation," according to the Panthers.
Shenault, 23, was a second-round pick by the Jaguars in the 2020 draft. His 58 receptions as a rookie led the team, and he totaled 600 yards and five touchdowns across 14 games (12 starts). In 2021, he caught 63 passes for 619 yards without a touchdown.
The Jaguars added Christian Kirk and Zay Jones via free agency and decided to move on from Shenault. The Panthers were reportedly interested in New York Jets wide receiver Denzel Mims as a trade candidate before Monday's reported deal.
Shenault has two years left on his rookie contract.
--Field Level Media | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/reuters/article-11158269/Panthers-acquire-WR-Laviska-Shenault-Jags.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | 2022-08-29T22:07:19Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/reuters/article-11158269/Panthers-acquire-WR-Laviska-Shenault-Jags.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | true |
The similarities between Nvidia (NASDAQ:NVDA) of today and Cisco (CSCO) of 2000 continue. The analogs between the two companies, separated by more than 20 years, are remarkable and have continued since I first pointed them out in December 2021.
Nvidia's horrible fiscal second quarter results and third quarter guidance were jaw dropping, and perhaps the only aspect more shocking was that the stock went up the next day. The company already had pre-announced fiscal second quarter results, so there was no surprise. But the surprisingly weak receivable days were eye-popping outside of the horrible sales guidance. Receivable days were up to 72.2, much higher than expectations of 53.7, and the highest number of receivable days in a decade.
Additionally, the days inventory outstanding remains at elevated levels around 93.40. That was expected and down slightly vs. last quarter, but receivable and inventory outstanding are both historically very high numbers and are certainly not seen during the "good times."
There are few words to describe how bad the sales guidance was at $5.9 billion, nearly 15% below analysts' consensus estimates of roughly $6.9 billion. The third quarter estimates were down from around $9.0 billion in mid April. That pushed full-year revenue estimates down to $27.2 billion from a peak of $34.9 billion, a massive decline in estimates. Analysts now see sales growing by 1.2% in fiscal 2023.
Due to the weak sales estimates and growth, earnings are forecast to decline in 2023 by 20.6% to $3.53 per share. Analysts see revenue bouncing back next year, climbing to around 13.9% to $31 billion, boosting earnings by 29% to $4.56.
But at this point, there may be more questions than answers, and given how much inventory the company is carrying and how long it takes for Nvidia to get paid, the outlook for next year may not be too rosy. If one thing is sure, uncertainty is much higher today than it was 90 days ago. This means that even though the stock has fallen materially in 2022, the stock is probably nowhere near cheap, trading with a PE of nearly 35.
Nvidia is cheaper today than it was at the end of 2021. However, with a historical PE average of 26.8, and with all of the questions. It seems more appropriate for the stock to trade with a comparable multiple to that seen in 2018, the last time the company struggled, which was below 20.
For the stock to trade at 20 times earnings, Nvidia would be worth $91.20 per share. A steep discount to the current price of roughly $159 on Aug. 29.
Sounds crazy, sure, but as I have pointed out on a few occasions, the stock is following a very similar path to Cisco in late 2000 from a technical and now fundamental standpoint.
The last time I focused on this was April, when I noted that the stock might take a profound turn for the worst. At the time, the bulls were relatively straightforward. They believed that Cisco's biggest downfall was its revenue plunging in 2000, ultimately leading to a significant share decline and that Nvidia was positioned very differently with expectations for strong revenue growth.
Fast forward a few months later, and suddenly Nvidia's sales estimates are sharply declining, just like Cisco in 2000. The one difference at this point in the equation is that analysts still believe that Nvidia's sales will recover during the next two years. In 2000 it's clear that Cisco's sales didn't recover for a long time. Maybe Nvidia's sales will recover and not follow Cisco's path. After all, it's a different time, but it seems remarkable and should at least raise eyebrows.
Even from a valuation perspective, Nvidia has fallen like Cisco in 2000, with the price-to-sales ratio on a trailing twelve-month basis coming down sharply since peaking.
Where Nvidia goes from here is not a pre-determined course and can undoubtedly shift and end up different than Cisco over the long term. It isn't to say Nvidia's stock will stagnate for the next 22 years like Cisco's. But it's worth noting that the similarities between the two stocks and fundamentals are jaw dropping.
Based on the path of Cisco in 2000, the next major turn in Nvidia could occur over the next 30 days and is, at the very least worth thinking very hard about. If 30 days come and go and Nvidia's shares are sharply higher, then the good news is that Nvidia may have a different fate than Cisco, and the similarities end with it.
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BINGHAMTON, NY (WIVT/WBGH) – Start your engines and brace yourselves for some of the world’s most extreme athletes.
Nitro Circus, the Good, Bad and the Rad Tour is coming to Mirabito Stadium on September 10th. It will be an evening of extreme stunts and possibly crashes.
Nitro Circus has some of the world’s best riders of FMX, BMX, Skate, Scooters, and everything in between.
The show at Mirabito Stadium will be the last one of this season’s tour. The athletes say, on the final show of a tour, they do not hold anything back.
A news conference detailing the event was held at Mirabito Stadium today, August 29th.
Four time Nitro World Games Champion, Ryan Williams joined the news conference, and says that he will be attempting a never before seen trick, here, in Binghamton.
Nitro Circus Performer Ryan WIlliams says, “We do a long tour, and we try to preserve ourselves. So, we’ve been basically, saving up for this point. If we haven’t got a trick done, this is the spot to do it, right here at this stadium. So, it’s going to be one of our best shows, one of our craziest shows. So, if you’re into crashes as well, then you’re gonna probably see it here.”
Williams says that one of his many stunts includes riding a lounge chair down a ramp, and soaring over forty-feet in the air.
Also at today’s news conference was fourteen time X-Games medalist, Josh Sheehan, who says that there is no better way to close out a three-month long tour then the best tricks, in front of thousands of excited fans.
Nitro Circus Performer Josh Sheehan says, “The crowd is what we ride for, we absolutely love it. Even on the motorbikes when the bike’s running, helmets on, we hear the crowd really well. That’s the most rewarding thing, to be able to do something that you’ve worked for years at to perfect, and then to be able to land it in front of thousands of people and hear them screaming, it’s awesome, it’s what we love.”
Sheehan landed the first-ever FMX Triple backflip in 2015.
On September 10th at Mirabito Stadium, the gates will open at 5:30 with the event kicking-off at 7 P.M.
Tickets are starting at $25 and can be purchased at the Visions FCU Box Office at Mirabito Stadium or online at bingrp.com. | https://www.binghamtonhomepage.com/news/top-stories/nitro-circus-xtreme-sports-coming-to-mirabito-stadium/ | 2022-08-29T22:11:00Z | https://www.binghamtonhomepage.com/news/top-stories/nitro-circus-xtreme-sports-coming-to-mirabito-stadium/ | true |
WFO AMARILLO Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Monday, August 29, 2022
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Amarillo TX
333 PM CDT Mon Aug 29 2022
...Strong thunderstorms will impact portions of southern Texas,
northwestern Hansford, northern Sherman, eastern Dallam and north
central Hartley Counties through 400 PM CDT...
At 333 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking strong thunderstorms along
a line extending from 6 miles east of Guymon to 12 miles west of
Conlen. Movement was southeast at 5 mph.
HAZARD...Wind gusts up to 50 mph and half inch hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects. Minor damage to outdoor objects is
possible.
Locations impacted include...
Guymon, Dalhart, Stratford, Goodwell, Optima, Hardesty, Ware, Conlen
and Texhoma.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
LAT...LON 3658 10105 3597 10267 3631 10277 3650 10222
3650 10203 3656 10203 3678 10139
TIME...MOT...LOC 2033Z 319DEG 5KT 3665 10136 3625 10245
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.50 IN
MAX WIND GUST...50 MPH
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of northwestern
Culberson County through 415 PM CDT...
At 336 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm 10
miles south of Pine Springs, moving west at 15 mph.
HAZARD...Wind gusts of 50 to 55 mph and penny size hail.
Guadalupe Mountains National Park.
LAT...LON 3187 10477 3181 10473 3179 10471 3173 10470
3164 10465 3157 10491 3187 10492
TIME...MOT...LOC 2036Z 070DEG 14KT 3173 10482
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.75 IN
MAX WIND GUST...55 MPH
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“Please treat as a four-way stop’ traffic advisory in Midland
Published: Aug. 29, 2022 at 5:44 PM EDT|Updated: 26 minutes ago
MIDLAND, Mich. (WNEM) – Traffic advisory issued for traffic lights being out due to power outage, according to Midland County Central Dispatch.
Due to a power outage, traffic lights on Saginaw Road in the Sanford area are non-functioning, Dispatch reports.
Consumer’s Energy is aware of the outage.
Please treat as a four-way stop, exercise caution for safety purposes, Dispatch said.
Copyright 2022 WNEM. All rights reserved. | https://www.wnem.com/2022/08/29/please-treat-four-way-stop-traffic-advisory-midland/ | 2022-08-29T22:13:41Z | https://www.wnem.com/2022/08/29/please-treat-four-way-stop-traffic-advisory-midland/ | false |
WASHINGTON, Aug. 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- NASA will hold a media teleconference at 6 p.m. EDT Tuesday, Aug. 30, to discuss the flight test of the agency's mega Moon rocket and uncrewed Orion spacecraft, currently at Launch Pad 39B at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, ahead of the Artemis I lunar mission.
Audio of the teleconference will stream live online at:
Teleconference participants include:
- Mike Sarafin, Artemis mission manager, NASA Headquarters
- Charlie Blackwell-Thompson, Artemis launch director, NASA Exploration Ground Systems Program, NASA Kennedy
- John Honeycutt, manager, Space Launch System (SLS) Program, NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center
To participate by telephone, media must RSVP no later than two hours prior to the start of the event to: ksc-newsroom@mail.nasa.gov.
The Artemis I launch was scrubbed Monday after encountering an issue getting one of the four RS-25 engines on the bottom of the rocket's core stage to the proper temperature range for liftoff.
Artemis I is a test flight to launch NASA's Space Launch System rocket and an uncrewed Orion spacecraft around the Moon before the Artemis II mission, which will have astronauts aboard. Through Artemis missions, NASA will land the first woman and the first person of color on the Moon, paving the way for a long-term lunar presence and serving as a steppingstone on the way to Mars.
For the latest updates online, follow along on NASA's Artemis blog at:
https://blogs.nasa.gov/artemis/
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SOURCE NASA | https://www.cleveland19.com/prnewswire/2022/08/29/nasa-provide-update-artemis-i-moon-mission-status/ | 2022-08-29T22:14:13Z | https://www.cleveland19.com/prnewswire/2022/08/29/nasa-provide-update-artemis-i-moon-mission-status/ | true |
WASHINGTON (NEXSTAR) – NASA was forced to delay the launch of its moon rocket after some technical issues on Monday. The highly-anticipated flight is still expected to happen eventually.
Before the Artemis I launch window officially opened, the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket had issues with fuel leaks and engine cooling. That led to engineers and officials making the call to postpone the launch.
“We don’t launch until it’s right,” NASA Administrator Bill Nelson said. “It’s just part of the space business and it’s part of, particularly, a test flight.”
Engineers are working on fixing the problems. The plan is to try the launch again soon, potentially as early as this Friday.
“They’re going to work it. They’ll get to the bottom of it. They’ll get it fixed and then we’ll fly,” Nelson said.
Vice President Kamala Harris was there for the planned launch. She says that despite the delay, she’s excited about the project and what it could accomplish in the future.
“This is with the goal of humans being able to live and work on the moon and with the next step being to travel to Mars,” Harris said.
If NASA can successfully launch the test flight, the next step will be getting astronauts on board a flight around the moon. They they hope to send astronauts on a third mission to land on the moon in 2025. | https://www.conchovalleyhomepage.com/washington/washington-dc/nasa-forced-to-delay-historic-moon-launch-mission/ | 2022-08-29T22:16:09Z | https://www.conchovalleyhomepage.com/washington/washington-dc/nasa-forced-to-delay-historic-moon-launch-mission/ | true |
Tuesday, Aug. 30
• ImagiKnit, Carnegie Public Library of Steuben County, 322 S. Wayne St., Angola, 9 a.m. to noon.
• Well Child Clinic, Steuben Community Center, 317 S. Wayne St, Angola, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
• 101 Lakes Duplicate Bridge Club, Glendarin Hills Golf Club, 3333 Glendarin Way, Angola, 12:15 p.m.
Wednesday, Aug. 31
• Knit@Night, Carnegie Public Library of Steuben County, 322 S. Wayne St., Angola, 4-6 p.m.
• New Beginnings for Narcotics Anonymous, First Congregational United Church of Christ, 314 W. Maumee St., Angola, 7 p.m.
• VFW Auxiliary meeting, VFW Post 7205, 2013 N. Wayne St., Angola, 7 p.m.
Thursday, Sept. 1
• 101 Lakes Kiwanis, Cahoots Coffee Cafe, 218 W. Maumee St., Angola, 7 a.m.
• Well Child Clinic, Steuben Community Center, 317 S. Wayne St., Angola, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
• All Women’s Alcoholics Anonymous Big Book Study, 412 S. John St., Angola, 6:30 p.m.
Friday, Sept. 2
• Open mic and karaoke, Cahoots Coffee Café, 218 W. Maumee St., Angola, 6-8 p.m.
Sunday, Sept. 4
• New Beginnings for Narcotics Anonymous, First Congregational United Church of Christ, 314 W. Maumee St., Angola, 6 p.m.
Monday, Sept. 5
Labor Day
Tuesday, Sept. 6
• ImagiKnit, Carnegie Public Library of Steuben County, 322 S. Wayne St., Angola, 9 a.m. to noon.
• Well Child Clinic, Steuben Community Center, 317 S. Wayne St, Angola, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
• 101 Lakes Duplicate Bridge Club, Glendarin Hills Golf Club, 3333 Glendarin Way, Angola, 12:15 p.m.
Wednesday, Sept. 7
• Knit@Night, Carnegie Public Library of Steuben County, 322 S. Wayne St., Angola, 4-6 p.m.
• New Beginnings for Narcotics Anonymous, First Congregational United Church of Christ, 314 W. Maumee St., Angola, 7 p.m.
• VFW Auxiliary meeting, VFW Post 7205, 2013 N. Wayne St., Angola, 7 p.m.
Thursday, Sept. 8
• 101 Lakes Kiwanis, Cahoots Coffee Cafe, 218 W. Maumee St., Angola, 7 a.m.
• Well Child Clinic, Steuben Community Center, 317 S. Wayne St., Angola, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
• All Women’s Alcoholics Anonymous Big Book Study, 412 S. John St., Angola, 6:30 p.m.
• Hamilton Lions Club, board meeting, Town Hall, 900 S. Wayne St., Hamilton, 6 p.m.
Sunday, Sept. 11
• New Beginnings for Narcotics Anonymous, First Congregational United Church of Christ, 314 W. Maumee St., Angola, 6 p.m.
Monday, Sept. 12
• Little River Chapter of the Sweet Adelines, Fairview Missionary Church, 525 E C.R. 200N., Angola, 6-9 p.m.
• Essential Oils Class, Carnegie Public Library of Steuben County, 322 S. Wayne St., Angola, 6:30 p.m.
• Gold Wing Road Riders Association, Pizza Hut, 1411 N. Wayne St., Angola, 7 p.m.
Tuesday, Sept. 13
• ImagiKnit, Carnegie Public Library of Steuben County, 322 S. Wayne St., Angola, 9 a.m. to noon.
• Well Child Clinic, Steuben Community Center, 317 S. Wayne St, Angola, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
• 101 Lakes Duplicate Bridge Club, Glendarin Hills Golf Club, 3333 Glendarin Way, Angola, 12:15 p.m.
Wednesday, Sept. 14
• Knit@Night, Carnegie Public Library of Steuben County, 322 S. Wayne St., Angola, 4-6 p.m.
• New Beginnings for Narcotics Anonymous, First Congregational United Church of Christ, 314 W. Maumee St., Angola, 7 p.m.
• VFW Auxiliary meeting, VFW Post 7205, 2013 N. Wayne St., Angola, 7 p.m.
Thursday, Sept. 15
• 101 Lakes Kiwanis, Cahoots Coffee Cafe, 218 W. Maumee St., Angola, 7 a.m.
• Well Child Clinic, Steuben Community Center, 317 S. Wayne St., Angola, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
• All Women’s Alcoholics Anonymous Big Book Study, 412 S. John St., Angola, 6:30 p.m.
• Hamilton Lions Club membership meeting, Town Hall 900 S. Wayne St., Hamilton, 6 p.m. For dinner reservations call Beth Kolhi at 668-6115.
Sunday, Sept. 18
• New Beginnings for Narcotics Anonymous, First Congregational United Church of Christ, 314 W. Maumee St., Angola, 6 p.m.
Monday, Sept. 19
• Little River Chapter of the Sweet Adelines, Fairview Missionary Church, 525 E C.R. 200N., Angola, 6-9 p.m.
• Essential Oils Class, Carnegie Public Library of Steuben County, 322 S. Wayne St., Angola, 6:30 p.m.
• Gold Wing Road Riders Association, Pizza Hut, 1411 N. Wayne St., Angola, 7 p.m.
Tuesday, Sept. 20
• ImagiKnit, Carnegie Public Library of Steuben County, 322 S. Wayne St., Angola, 9 a.m. to noon.
• Well Child Clinic, Steuben Community Center, 317 S. Wayne St, Angola, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
• 101 Lakes Duplicate Bridge Club, Glendarin Hills Golf Club, 3333 Glendarin Way, Angola, 12:15 p.m.
Wednesday, Sept. 21
• Knit@Night, Carnegie Public Library of Steuben County, 322 S. Wayne St., Angola, 4-6 p.m.
• New Beginnings for Narcotics Anonymous, First Congregational United Church of Christ, 314 W. Maumee St., Angola, 7 p.m.
• VFW Auxiliary meeting, VFW Post 7205, 2013 N. Wayne St., Angola, 7 p.m.
Thursday, Sept. 22
• 101 Lakes Kiwanis, Cahoots Coffee Cafe, 218 W. Maumee St., Angola, 7 a.m.
• Well Child Clinic, Steuben Community Center, 317 S. Wayne St., Angola, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
• All Women’s Alcoholics Anonymous Big Book Study, 412 S. John St., Angola, 6:30 p.m.
Sunday, Sept. 25
• New Beginnings for Narcotics Anonymous, First Congregational United Church of Christ, 314 W. Maumee St., Angola, 6 p.m.
Monday, Sept. 26
• Little River Chapter of the Sweet Adelines, Fairview Missionary Church, 525 E C.R. 200N., Angola, 6-9 p.m.
• Essential Oils Class, Carnegie Public Library of Steuben County, 322 S. Wayne St., Angola, 6:30 p.m.
• Gold Wing Road Riders Association, Pizza Hut, 1411 N. Wayne St., Angola, 7 p.m.
Tuesday, Sept. 27
• ImagiKnit, Carnegie Public Library of Steuben County, 322 S. Wayne St., Angola, 9 a.m. to noon.
• Well Child Clinic, Steuben Community Center, 317 S. Wayne St, Angola, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
• 101 Lakes Duplicate Bridge Club, Glendarin Hills Golf Club, 3333 Glendarin Way, Angola, 12:15 p.m.
Wednesday, Sept. 28
• Knit@Night, Carnegie Public Library of Steuben County, 322 S. Wayne St., Angola, 4-6 p.m.
• New Beginnings for Narcotics Anonymous, First Congregational United Church of Christ, 314 W. Maumee St., Angola, 7 p.m.
• VFW Auxiliary meeting, VFW Post 7205, 2013 N. Wayne St., Angola, 7 p.m.
Thursday, Sept. 29
• 101 Lakes Kiwanis, Cahoots Coffee Cafe, 218 W. Maumee St., Angola, 7 a.m.
• Well Child Clinic, Steuben Community Center, 317 S. Wayne St., Angola, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
• All Women’s Alcoholics Anonymous Big Book Study, 412 S. John St., Angola, 6:30 p.m. | https://www.kpcnews.com/features/life/kpcnews/article_1793e12e-fe85-54f1-ba02-2df82b644933.html | 2022-08-29T22:18:42Z | https://www.kpcnews.com/features/life/kpcnews/article_1793e12e-fe85-54f1-ba02-2df82b644933.html | false |
JACKSON, Miss (AP) — The forecasted flooding in Mississippi could not have come at a worse time for Veronique Daniels, who became homeless three months ago and was sleeping on her mother’s back porch in Jackson when she got wind of the impending disaster.
The Red Cross has opened a temporary shelter at the Jackson Police Department Training Academy. As of Sunday afternoon, Daniels was the first person to arrive. She found out about the shelter on Facebook and had her mother drop her off Sunday morning.
Daniels’ mother lives in Canton Club Circle, the same Jackson subdivision that flooded two years ago. Residents on Sunday were taking precautions as the previous flooding loomed large in their memories.
In 2020, days of torrential downpours caused the Pearl River to reach 36.7 feet (11.2 meters) and Jackson homes in the hardest hit neighborhoods were filled with dirty, snake-infested flood water.
Now, experts predict the river will crest at 35.5 feet (10.8 meters) on Monday. The city estimates that 100 to 150 homes could be impacted by Monday night.
“If you are capable of getting out now, get out now. Get out as soon as possible,” said Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba at a news conference Saturday, the same day Mississippi’s governor declared a state of emergency.
Linda Gagliardi, a Red Cross volunteer deployed from Huntsville, Alabama, said she expects an influx of residents Sunday night.
“Our advice is to have a plan and be ready to leave at a moment’s notice,” Gagliardi said. “And I think that’s what people are waiting for, that moment’s notice.”
As Red Cross volunteers helped Daniels finish a load of laundry, she waited for her 18-year-old daughter and an 11-month-old grandson to arrive. They had stayed with friends the previous night, but the family’s long-term plans are up on in the air.
Some Jackson residents were moving belongings out of their homes. Others were stocking up on sandbags. The Mississippi Emergency Management Agency had deployed 126,000 sandbags to act as water barriers in preparation for flooding.
Oscar Day, an inventory control worker at a sandbag distribution site, said Jackson residents started preparing their homes for potential flood damage earlier than in 2020.
“A lot of people took the heat last time,” Day told The Associated Press on Sunday, referring to residents who chose not to take precautions two years ago.
The Mississippi floodwaters arrive in the wake of the destruction and death visited upon Kentucky residents last month. Those floods caused at least 39 deaths and robbed thousands of families of all of their possessions. Nearly a month later, residents are wrestling with the question of whether to rebuild at the place they call home or start over somewhere else.
In Jackson, officials have not implemented a mandatory evacuation order but have said residents risk fending for themselves if they choose to stay home.
A Ridgeland police officer patrolling the grounds of the Harbor Pines Mobile Home Community on Sunday estimated that about 20% of the residents had yet to evacuate by Sunday afternoon.
He warned: “If you stay here and you get stranded, we may or may not be able to come rescue you.”
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Michael Goldberg is a corps member for the Associated Press/Report for America Statehouse News Initiative. Report for America is a nonprofit national service program that places journalists in local newsrooms to report on undercovered issues. Follow him on Twitter at twitter.com/mikergoldberg. | https://www.wjhl.com/news/national/ap-flooding-looms-large-again-in-mississippis-capital-city/ | 2022-08-29T22:19:17Z | https://www.wjhl.com/news/national/ap-flooding-looms-large-again-in-mississippis-capital-city/ | true |
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Wall Street closes lower, adding to last week’s losses
NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks closed lower on Wall Street, adding to their recent losses as traders realized how determined the Federal Reserve is to keep interest rates high to fight inflation. The S&P 500 gave back almost 1% Monday. Technology companies were the biggest drag on the index. The Nasdaq and the Dow Jones Industrial Average also fell. This week investors will get more updates on the economy including the government’s monthly jobs report on Friday and a reading on consumer confidence Tuesday from the Conference Board. European markets were also lower and Asian markets closed lower overnight. Treasury yields were higher.
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‘Tape or chewing gum:’ Twitter’s lapses echo worldwide
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Twitter at its best is a tool to get a message out quickly, efficiently and directly, whether you’re an activist or a local fire department. But it’s also a constant risk-and-reward calculation. A bombshell whistleblower report from Twitter’s former head of security alleges that the social media company has been negligently lax on cybersecurity and privacy protections for its users for years. The revelations could be especially concerning for those who use it to reach constituencies, get news out about emergencies as well as for political dissidents and activists in the crosshairs of hackers or other malicious actors.
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Elon Musk subpoenas Twitter whistleblower ahead of trial
WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — Elon Musk’s legal team is demanding to hear from a whistleblowing former Twitter executive who could help bolster Musk’s case for backing out of a $44 billion deal to buy the social media company. Twitter’s former security chief Peiter Zatko — also known by his hacker handle “Mudge” — received a subpoena Saturday from Musk’s team, according to Zatko’s lawyer and court records. The billionaire Tesla CEO has spent months alleging that the company he agreed to acquire undercounted its fake and spam accounts — and that he shouldn’t have to consummate the deal as a result.
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LG, Honda to set up US joint venture to make EV batteries
TOKYO (AP) — Major South Korean battery maker LG and Japanese automaker Honda are investing $4.4 billion in a joint venture to produce batteries for Honda electric vehicles in the North American market. They say the plant’s U.S. site is still undecided. Construction is to begin in early 2023, with mass production of advanced lithium-ion battery cells to start by the end of 2025. The closing of the deal is subject to regulatory approval. They say the plant will produce batteries exclusively for Honda vehicles assembled in North America, including the company’s Acura luxury brand.
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FTC accuses data broker of selling sensitive location data
WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal regulators have sued a data broker they accuse of selling sensitive geolocation data from millions of mobile devices. The data can be used to identify people and track their movements to and from sensitive locations, including reproductive health clinics, homeless shelters and places of worship. The Federal Trade Commission on Monday sued Idaho-based Kochava Inc. amid a charged debate over the privacy of individuals who may be seeking an abortion in the wake of the Supreme Court’s ruling in June ending the constitutional protections for abortion. The data-broker industry has come under amplified scrutiny from Congress and regulators.
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EU, German leaders pledge reform to cut electricity prices
BERLIN (AP) — The head of the European Union’s executive branch and Germany’s chancellor have pledged a reform of the continent’s electricity market to help bring down power prices that have been pushed higher by skyrocketing gas prices. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said in a speech in Bled, Slovenia on Monday that “skyrocketing electricity prices are now exposing the limitations of our current electricity market design.” She said it was developed for different circumstances, and “that is why we are now working on an emergency intervention and a structural reform of the electricity market.”
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Walmart seeks to dismiss lawsuit by FTC over money transfers
NEW YORK (AP) — Walmart has filed a motion to dismiss a lawsuit by the Federal Trade Commission that accuses the retailer of allowing its money-transfer services to be used by scam artists. It says the suit is an egregious instance of agency overreach. In its lawsuit filed in June, the FTC alleged that for years, Walmart failed to properly secure the money-transfer services offered at its stores. In a 41-page filing Monday, the nation’s largest retailer said the agency lacks constitutionally valid authority to sue for money or injunctive relief. Walmart also argues that the agency is trying to contort a regulation aimed at going after telemarketers and those who actively help them, of which Walmart is neither.
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3 of 12 rail unions announce tentative deal with 24% raises
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Three of the 12 unions negotiating with the nation’s biggest freight railroads have reached a tentative deal providing 24% pay raises. That’s in line with what a special presidential panel of arbitrators recommended earlier this month to resolve the stalemate before a strike could happen. The tentative deal announced Monday covers more than 15,000 workers. But the two biggest rail unions that represent engineers and conductors say they still haven’t been able to reach a deal. The railroads have until mid-September to reach agreements with all their unions before federal law would allow them to go on strike. But if it gets to that point, Congress is expected to step in to keep the trains moving.
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Labor board rules Tesla must let workers wear union clothing
DETROIT (AP) — The National Labor Relations Board has found that Tesla can’t stop factory employees from wearing clothing with union insignias while on the job. In a 3-2 decision released Monday, the board overruled a 2019 NLRB decision involving Walmart and union clothing. The board wrote that a 1945 Supreme Court decision established the precedent for allowing the clothing. It ordered Tesla to stop enforcing what it called an overly broad uniform policy that effectively stops production workers from wearing black shirts with the United Auto Workers union logo. Messages were left Monday seeking comment from Tesla and the union.
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The S&P 500 dropped 27.05 points, or 0.7%, to 4,030.61. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 184.41 points, or 0.6%, to 32,098.99. The Nasdaq lost 124.04 points, or 1%, to 12,017.67. The Russell 2000 index of smaller companies retreated 16.89 points, or 0.9%, to 1,882.94. | https://www.seattlepi.com/business/article/Business-Highlights-Stocks-losses-Twitter-s-17405900.php | 2022-08-29T22:21:06Z | https://www.seattlepi.com/business/article/Business-Highlights-Stocks-losses-Twitter-s-17405900.php | true |
WFO EL PASO Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Monday, August 29, 2022
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SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
The National Weather Service in El Paso has issued a
* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
Central Hudspeth County in western Texas...
* Until 400 PM MDT.
* At 329 PM MDT, a severe thunderstorm was located 15 miles north of
Finlay, moving southeast at 15 mph.
HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Hail damage to vehicles is expected. Expect wind damage
to roofs, siding, and trees.
* This severe thunderstorm will remain over mainly rural areas of
central Hudspeth County.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 500 PM CDT
FOR SOUTHWESTERN ARMSTRONG AND SOUTHEASTERN RANDALL COUNTIES...
At 431 PM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located 9 miles northeast of
Happy, or 11 miles southeast of Canyon, moving south at 15 mph.
HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Minor damage to roofs, siding, and trees is possible.
Locations impacted include...
Lake Tanglewood, Wayside, Palo Duro Canyon and Timbercreek Canyon.
Torrential rainfall is occurring with this storm, and may lead to
flash flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded roadways.
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JERSEY CITY, N.J. (AP) — A man has pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the 2019 shooting death of a woman that occurred less than a year after he was acquitted of a separate homicide, prosecutors said Monday.
Anthony Shuler, 31, of Jersey City pleaded guilty Thursday to first-degree aggravated manslaughter in the slaying of 26-year-old Diamond Robinson of Bayonne. Authorities said she was shot in the face in September 2019, the Hudson County prosecutor's office said.
Prosecutors said in a statement that they will recommend a 25-year prison term when Shuler is sentenced Dec. 2.
Ten months before the shooting, Shuler had been acquitted in the June 2010 slaying of Darren Edwards in Jersey City by jurors who deliberated less than three hours. After his acquittal, Shuler praised God and said “it is he who allowed me to undergo my struggle without doubt.” | https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Prosecutor-NJ-man-pleads-to-manslaughter-in-2019-17405826.php | 2022-08-29T22:22:50Z | https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Prosecutor-NJ-man-pleads-to-manslaughter-in-2019-17405826.php | false |
WFO LUBBOCK Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Monday, August 29, 2022
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SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
Severe Weather Statement
National Weather Service Lubbock TX
419 PM CDT Mon Aug 29 2022
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 430 PM CDT
FOR NORTHEASTERN BAILEY AND NORTHWESTERN LAMB COUNTIES...
At 418 PM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located 7 miles southeast of
Muleshoe, moving south at 15 mph.
HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Expect damage to roofs, siding, and trees.
Locations impacted include...
Muleshoe and Sudan.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Blowing dust is likely ahead of this storm. Also, torrential
rainfall is occurring with this storm and may lead to flash
flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded roadways.
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of
a building.
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A fuel leak and then an engine problem during final liftoff preparations led NASA to call off the launch of its mighty new moon rocket Monday on its debut flight with three test dummies aboard.
The next launch attempt will not take place until Friday at the earliest and could be off until next month.
The flight, when it happens, will be the first launch in NASA’s Artemis project, a quest to put astronauts back on the moon for the time since the Apollo program ended 50 years ago.
As precious minutes ticked away Monday morning, NASA repeatedly stopped and started the fueling of the Space Launch System rocket with nearly 1 million gallons of super-cold hydrogen and oxygen because of a leak of highly explosive hydrogen. The leak happened in the same place that saw seepage during a dress rehearsal back in the spring.
Then, NASA ran into new trouble when it was unable to properly chill one of the rocket’s four main engines, officials said. Engineers continued working to pinpoint the source of the problem after the launch postponement was announced.
“This is a very complicated machine, a very complicated system, and all those things have to work, and you don’t want to light the candle until it’s ready to go,” said NASA Administrator Bill Nelson.
Referring to launch delays, Mr. Nelson said: “It’s just part of the space business and it’s part of, particularly, a test flight.”
The rocket was set to lift off on a flight to propel a crew capsule into orbit around the moon. The six-week mission was scheduled to end with the capsule returning to Earth in a splashdown in the Pacific in October.
The 322-foot (98-meter) spaceship is the most powerful rocket ever built by NASA, out-muscling even the Saturn V that the Apollo astronauts rode.
As for when NASA might make another liftoff attempt, launch commentator Derrol Nail said engineers were still analyzing the engine problem and “we must wait to see what shakes out from their test data.”
No astronauts were inside the rocket’s Orion capsule. Instead, the test dummies, fitted with sensors to measure vibration, cosmic radiation, and other conditions, were strapped in for the shakedown flight, meant to stress-test the spacecraft and push it to its limits in ways that would never be attempted with humans aboard.
Even though no one was on board, thousands of people jammed the coast to see the rocket soar. Vice President Kamala Harris was among the VIPs who arrived for the event.
Assuming the shakedown flight goes well, astronauts will strap in for the second mission and fly around the moon and back as soon as 2024. A two-person lunar landing could follow by the end of 2025.
The problems seen Monday were reminiscent of NASA’s space shuttle era, when hydrogen fuel leaks disrupted countdowns and delayed a string of launches back in 1990.
Later in the morning, NASA also officials spotted what they feared was a crack or some other defect on the core stage – the big orange fuel tank with four main engines on it – but they later said it appeared to be just a buildup of frost in a crevice of the insulating foam.
Launch director Charlie Blackwell-Thompson and her team also had to deal with a communication problem involving the Orion capsule.
Engineers scrambled to understand an 11-minute delay in the communication lines between launch control and Orion that cropped up late Sunday. Though the problem had cleared by Monday morning, NASA needed to know why it happened before committing to a launch.
Regardless of all the technical snags, thunderstorms ultimately would have prevented a liftoff. Dark clouds gathered over the launch site as soon as Blackwell-Thompson halted the countdown, with thunder echoing across the coast.
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INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — We are continuing to monitor storm chances for our Monday evening and night with strong to severe storms possible.
A ***Severe Thunderstorm Watch*** remains in effect until 8 PM EDT for part of the northern half of Indiana.
Monday night: Scattered rain and storms are expected tonight and into early Tuesday.
There remains a threat for severe weather as there is an Enhanced Risk (level 3/5) in northeastern Indiana. A Slight Risk (level 2/5) is in place from a Terre Haute-Shelbyville line and points north. Main concern is damaging winds, and there could also be localized flooding issues.
Expect a mild and muggy night with lows only falling into the upper 60s.
Tuesday: Scattered rain and storms will be around to start our Tuesday before we mostly dry out by the lunch hour. A few lingering showers may develop before the evening commute.
Highs are set to be slightly cooler with numbers in the low to mid 80s. Humidity values will be high to start the day, but by the time we get to Tuesday night, much more comfortable air will swing in.
Wednesday: The cooling trend rolls on into our Wednesday as we get to enjoy a humid-free day with lots of sunshine. Highs will top out in the low 80s.
8-Day Forecast: The second half of the workweek will feature the start of another warming trend. This warming trend will lead way to a quick return of summer heat and humidity for Labor Day weekend with dry conditions. | https://www.wishtv.com/weather/weather-blog/tracking-monday-nights-storms-cooler-air-ahead/ | 2022-08-29T22:24:40Z | https://www.wishtv.com/weather/weather-blog/tracking-monday-nights-storms-cooler-air-ahead/ | true |
TAMPA, Fla. — The Tampa Police Department said two women are facing charges for intentionally burning young children with a hot pot.
According to Tampa Police, the children were intentionally burned by Chazay Durant, 24, with a hot pot. Police said one of the children was held down by Shyandria Scott, 19, during the incident.
TPD said officers were made aware of the abuse on August 18, after one of the children, under the age of 10, showed up to school with welts, blisters, and fresh burn marks on their body. Officials said the child was immediately transported to St. Joseph's Hospital for medical care.
Police said the Department of Child and Families (DCF) was contacted, and a child protective investigator visited the home. While visiting the home, DCF discovered another child under the age of five had similar injuries.
TPD said all children were removed from the home and medically assessed. The exact cause of the abuse is under investigation.
Police said Durant and Scott were arrested and now face charges for aggravated child abuse.
RELATED: Caregiver arrested after burning 10-year-old with hot pot to 'teach the child a lesson:' HCSO | https://www.abcactionnews.com/news/region-hillsborough/2-tampa-women-arrested-for-burning-children-with-hot-pot-police-say | 2022-08-29T22:26:37Z | https://www.abcactionnews.com/news/region-hillsborough/2-tampa-women-arrested-for-burning-children-with-hot-pot-police-say | false |
WFO AMARILLO Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Monday, August 29, 2022
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SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
The National Weather Service in Amarillo has issued a
* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
Southern Texas County in the Panhandle of Oklahoma...
Northern Hansford County in the Panhandle of Texas...
Sherman County in the Panhandle of Texas...
* Until 445 PM CDT.
* At 347 PM CDT, severe thunderstorms were located along a line
extending from 5 miles northwest of Hardesty to 5 miles north of
Stratford, moving south at 10 mph.
HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Minor damage to roofs, siding, and trees is possible.
Hail damage to vehicles is expected.
* Locations impacted include...
Guymon, Stratford, Goodwell, Hardesty and Texhoma.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.
Torrential rainfall is occurring with these storms, and may lead to
flash flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded roadways.
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of southwestern
Eastland County through 430 PM CDT...
At 350 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm 8
miles north of Rising Star, or 11 miles south of Cisco, moving
southeast at 5 mph.
HAZARD...Winds in excess of 40 mph and pea size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects. Minor damage to outdoor objects is
possible.
Locations impacted include...
Rising Star.
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
LAT...LON 3233 9893 3217 9874 3208 9893 3208 9906
3225 9907
TIME...MOT...LOC 2050Z 308DEG 6KT 3222 9896
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.25 IN
MAX WIND GUST...40 MPH
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LYTTON, British Columbia — Nothing has been rebuilt since flames devoured the tiny village of Lytton last year, turning it into a national symbol of climate change. It was in Lytton, about 90 miles northeast of Vancouver, that temperatures set a national record of 49.6 degrees Celsius — 121.3 Fahrenheit in Canada! — before the deadly fire erupted.
Blue fencing on either side of Main Street blocks off access to the ruins of the village. Charred trees, flattened roofs, collapsed walls and piles of debris stretch over the full length of the village center, the silence broken only by helicopters dumping water to try to extinguish more recent fires in the nearby mountains.
“It’s a flashback of what happened last year,” said Phyllis Speinks, 54, who was filling her truck up at a nearby gas station and had been evacuated for two weeks because of this summer’s fires. “I was afraid.”
The heat that started the inferno in Lytton killed 619 people in the province last year and caused tens of millions of dollars in damage. It has sent government officials scrambling for policies, tools and approaches they can use to steer the province away from more disasters by stemming the effects of climate change, which scientists believe contributed to the extreme heat and other destructive weather events of the past year.
Now, the region is fighting back. Vancouver’s City Council took preliminary steps in July toward suing major oil companies, seeking damages for the local costs of climate change.
The move, in a city that has been a leader of the environmental movement in Canada and was the birthplace of Greenpeace, would be the first lawsuit of its kind in the country against the fossil fuel industry, whose carbon emissions contribute to global warming.
Jay Averill, spokesperson for the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers, said in an email that Vancouver “could not function today without the use of oil and natural gas.”
“Funding a lawsuit to sue the very industry that has invested billions of dollars in British Columbia over decades, created thousands of jobs and delivered billions of dollars in government revenues to support health care, infrastructure and social programs across the province, is not an efficient use of taxpayer’s money,” he added.
The lawsuit’s proponents argue that energy companies should be held responsible for their share of Vancouver’s climate costs because they knew about their industry’s effects on climate change decades ago, but covered up evidence and lobbied against climate action. They point to a series of a catastrophic and rare weather-related events in the past year in the region as evidence.
Beside the fire, which killed two people in Lytton, a weather event known as an atmospheric river caused huge floods that isolated entire towns and thousands of people in a region east of Vancouver.
A tornado called a waterspout brought winds of up to 110 kilometers an hour, or 68 mph, to the University of British Columbia campus in Vancouver. High winds and major tides damaged Vancouver’s scenic sea walls in Stanley Park, which have become increasingly vulnerable to rising sea levels. In December, unusual cold — 4 degrees Fahrenheit — gripped a city famous for its moderate climate.
“I was born here, and we never had anything like this,” said Adriane Carr, a Vancouver city councilor who is helping lead the push for the lawsuit.
Carr helped found the Green Party in British Columbia in 1983, the first Green Party in North America. “The weather was very predictable,” she said. “We had lovely, warm summers, not too hot. Cool, wet rainy winters. It was probably the iconic city of temperate climate.”
Vancouver will have to spend 50 million Canadian dollars, or about $39 million, to repair last year’s damage from various natural calamities, Carr said.
Before the lawsuit can proceed, it would need to be approved by Vancouver’s next city council, which has elections scheduled this fall, and could also include other municipalities and environmental organizations.
The council’s move to lay the groundwork for a lawsuit came shortly after local environmental groups launched a “Sue Big Oil” campaign, urging local governments to file a class-action lawsuit against global oil companies.
“We cannot make the types of dramatic shifts that society needs to deal with climate change while the global fossil fuel industry makes hundreds of billions, trillions of dollars of profit from selling the same products that are causing the problem,” said Andrew Gage, a staff lawyer at West Coast Environmental Law, a leader of the campaign.
British Columbia’s provincial government announced in June that it would spend more than a half-billion Canadian dollars over the next three years, roughly $400 million, on measures to adapt to a changing climate.
Local governments across the country will have to spend a total of 5.3 billion Canadian dollars a year, or $4.1 billion, on infrastructure and other projects to account for the effects of climate change, according to a 2020 report by the Insurance Bureau of Canada and the Federation of Canadian Municipalities, which represents more than 2,000 communities.
In the United States, dozens of municipalities, inspired in part by successful lawsuits against the tobacco industry, have taken legal action against oil giants seeking damages for climate change.
In what was considered a landmark case, environmentalists with Friends of the Earth won a significant victory in the Netherlands in 2021 against Royal Dutch Shell, Europe’s largest oil company.
A Dutch court ruled that Shell had to accelerate its reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, especially in the Netherlands, which is at risk of rising sea levels.
A lawsuit by Vancouver against fossil-fuel companies would be significant given the industry’s importance in Canada, one of the world’s top oil producers, said Kathryn Harrison, a professor of political science at the University of British Columbia and an expert on environmental policies.
“It’s important that a Canadian government is calling out the oil industry,” Harrison said. “The fossil fuel industry still holds a very privileged position in Canadian politics at the national level and in some provinces.”
Whether Vancouver pursues the lawsuit won’t be clear for months. The 11-member council endorsed a plan to set aside $1 for each of the city’s more than 660,000 residents in next year’s budget to finance the lawsuit.
The motion passed by a single vote, 6-5, with opponents arguing that such litigation was not within a local government’s jurisdiction. Elections scheduled for the fall could also alter the council’s dynamics. The new council would have to approve the financing plan for the lawsuit as part of the city’s budget.
“People thought it was silly to sue cigarette companies, so I think it’s in that vein,” said Kennedy Stewart, mayor of Vancouver, who cast the deciding vote in favor of pursuing the lawsuit. “It’s hard being first.”
In Lytton, with 90% of the village destroyed, about 250 out of its 300 residents are still scattered in surrounding communities, living with relatives or others, according to the mayor, Jan Polderman.
The Canadian government has promised to spend 77 million Canadian dollars, about $60 million, to rebuild Lytton, including homes, although most of the money will be used to build fire-resistant public buildings.
Lytton has been inhabited for centuries by Indigenous communities and in the 19th century served as a home to Chinese railway workers and to miners during the Gold Rush. Today, it sits at the intersection of rail lines and highways, including the Trans-Canada Highway.
Surrounded by mountains and deep in the Fraser Canyon, the area has always been known for hot temperatures and summertime forest fires.
But last year’s heat dome brought temperatures that even Lytton had never experienced. International climate researchers said that the heat dome was an extreme weather event, which would have been at least 150 times rarer without human-induced climate change.
The national record of 49.6 degrees Celsius shattered the previous high in Lytton by 6 degrees, Polderman said.
“We were now hotter than Las Vegas,” the mayor said as he worked on the deck of his home, located on a hill outside the village center that was not touched by the fire.
The day after Lytton broke the national record, a fire started in the late afternoon in the village center from a still-unknown cause. Strong winds pushed the flames through Lytton, consuming it in less than two hours, Polderman said.
The mayor drove his Honda minivan through the village, exhorting skeptical residents to leave. He picked up the last straggler, a man running down a road with his cat in a cage.
Along with houses, Lytton’s lone hotel, restaurant, deli, coffee shop and elementary school all burned down. Only the post office, the municipal pool and a government office survived.
Before the fire, the mayor believed that climate change was “the next generation’s problem,” he said. “I don’t think that anymore.” | https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/after-deadly-fires-and-disastrous-floods-vancouver-b-c-moves-to-sue-big-oil/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_nation-world | 2022-08-29T22:27:24Z | https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/after-deadly-fires-and-disastrous-floods-vancouver-b-c-moves-to-sue-big-oil/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_nation-world | true |
Today on “Post Reports,” we revisit the use of one of the most intrusive and dangerous tools in policing: no-knock warrants.
Two years after the death of Breonna Taylor, the Justice Department announced federal charges against four officers involved in her death. At the time, officers had a no-knock warrant for the young Black woman’s apartment.
For Taylor’s mother, Tamika Palmer, the Justice Department investigation represented a step toward justice for her daughter — but it was also a reminder of how much further police accountability has to go.
Since this spring, and the release of the “Broken Doors” podcast, activists, local government leaders and national law enforcement officials have continued to scrutinize the use of no-knock warrants by police. Today on “Post Reports,” investigative reporters and “Broken Doors” hosts Nicole Dungca and Jenn Abelson bring us updates from across the country, revisiting fatal no-knock cases and weighing in on what’s happened in Kentucky since Taylor’s death.
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Today on “Post Reports,” we revisit the use of one of the most intrusive and dangerous tools in policing: no-knock warrants.
Two years after the death of Breonna Taylor, the Justice Department announced federal charges against four officers involved in her death. At the time, officers had a no-knock warrant for the young Black woman’s apartment.
For Taylor’s mother, Tamika Palmer, the Justice Department investigation represented a step toward justice for her daughter — but it was also a reminder of how much further police accountability has to go.
Since this spring, and the release of the “Broken Doors” podcast, activists, local government leaders and national law enforcement officials have continued to scrutinize the use of no-knock warrants by police. Today on “Post Reports,” investigative reporters and “Broken Doors” hosts Nicole Dungca and Jenn Abelson bring us updates from across the country, revisiting fatal no-knock cases and weighing in on what’s happened in Kentucky since Taylor’s death.
Today on “Post Reports,” Helena Andrews-Dyer on her new book, “The Mamas” and what it takes to be an authentic Black mother in a mostly White mom group. | https://www.washingtonpost.com/podcasts/post-reports/noknock-warrants-revisited/ | 2022-08-29T22:31:36Z | https://www.washingtonpost.com/podcasts/post-reports/noknock-warrants-revisited/ | true |
‘I freaked out,’ Man wins $300,000 from $10 lottery ticket while visiting friends out of state
SPARTANBURG, S.C. (WHNS/Gray News) - A Georgia man is celebrating his visit to South Carolina after the lottery ticket he happened to buy won him $300,000.
The South Carolina Education Lottery announced the Atlanta native won the prize while visiting friends.
The winner said he stopped at the Lil Cricket in Spartanburg to buy a bottle of water and a $10 lottery ticket, WHNS reports.
According to the winner, he “freaked out” when he saw that he won.
“I ran back in the store and gave the clerk a hug,” the unnamed winner said.
He told lottery officials that his first purchase was a new car for his next trip to South Carolina.
“I’m extremely happy,” he said. “I’ll definitely visit South Carolina more.”
The Lil Cricket store received a commission of $3,000 for selling the claimed ticket.
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A knee-high granite monument bearing the Old Testament’s Ten Commandments appeared on Lincolnville Beach Monday morning, prompting concern and surprise from some residents and beachgoers.
But by late afternoon, town officials had determined the dark, stone tablet was sitting on private property and not the public beach.
The sand in question belongs to Rick McLaughlin, who owns McLaughlin’s Lobster Shack, just west of the public portion of the beach, according to Lincolnville Town Administrator David Kinney.
“Portions of the beach are town owned, and some are private,” Kinney said. “It’s well onto his property.”
Kinney said he’d fielded several calls about the stone Monday from area residents wanting to know why there was a religious monument on what they thought was the public beach.
Kelly Dionne of Thorndike was among those surprised to find the upright slab on the sand, next to a seawall this morning.
“I was taking a day to come down here with my kids,” Dionne said, “and it looks like a tombstone.”
The commandments are carved into the stone in a dramatic, vintage-style font and are shortened versions of those found in the King James translation of the Bible.
Why the stone was placed on McLaughlin’s property is not known.
Nobody picked up the phone at McLaughlin’s Lobster Shack, which was closed Monday, and a call to McLaughlin’s residence was not immediately returned.
Kinney said, as far as the town was concerned, the matter was closed for the time being.
“We’re not looking into it any further today,” he said. | https://www.bangordailynews.com/2022/08/29/news/portland/ten-commandments-not-on-public-property/ | 2022-08-29T22:38:18Z | https://www.bangordailynews.com/2022/08/29/news/portland/ten-commandments-not-on-public-property/ | true |
What is the best way to keep kids cool during youth football season?
Whether it’s exploring a playground or participating in youth sports, getting outside and being active is vital for kids. While physical activity offers a ton of health benefits, it’s equally as important to keep track of the temperature. One sport that is known to be especially grueling in the heat is youth football. On top of high temps, athletes also have to deal with additional pads and a football helmet, which can raise their core temperature further. So, whether you’re a coach or have a child in youth football, these tips will keep kids safe a cool in the heat.
Tips to keep kids cool
Heat affects over 700 people per year, per the CDC, so keeping kids cool also ensures their safety. The CDC also points out that the risk of heat exhaustion is at its highest during high-humidity days because sweat doesn’t evaporate as quickly. Here are a few tips to keep kids cool.
Hydrate
While sweating on a hot day is essential for cooling down your body, excess sweat means you’re losing fluids. To combat the loss of fluids, hydrate, and then hydrate again. While sugary drinks should be kept to a minimum, sports drinks with electrolytes and sodium are also important to replace the lost electrolytes and refuel muscles.
Wear loose-fitting clothing
Tight clothing doesn’t let sweat evaporate and naturally cool your body, which is why loose-fitting clothing works best to keep your body cool.
Cool down the body’s pulse points
The eight pulse points on the body are the temples, the back of the neck, behind the elbows and knees, the wrists, inside of the thighs and ankles and the top of the feet. Cooling down these pulse points with a cooling towel, ice pack or misting fan will also cool off your blood and lower your body temperature.
Offer shade
While shade doesn’t lower body temperature, it does make the air feel up to 15 degrees cooler than in the sun.
Signs of heat exhaustion in kids
According to the CDC, here are signs of heat exhaustion to watch out for:
- Cold, pale or clammy skin
- Fast and weak pulse
- Nausea or vomiting
- Muscle cramps
- Dizziness
- Headache
- Passing out
Best products to keep kids cool
Under $20
Neutrogena Ultra Sheer Dry-Touch Sunscreen With Broad Spectrum SPF 70
Sunscreen is essential to keep kids safe in the heat, and this option is broad spectrum SPF 70. It’s also water-resistant, so it won’t come off when they sweat. Sold by Amazon and Ulta
O2Cool Deluxe Handheld Water Misting Fan
This handheld misting fan is perfect for grueling practices on hot days. It’s battery-powered and can be easily changed on the go if the batteries die, making it ideal for travel. The super fine mist is refreshing on a hot day, and the soft blades are safe for fingers. Sold by Amazon
Mission Original Cooling Towel
When activated with water, this towel instantly cools to 30 degrees below the average body temperature in only 30 seconds. Also, the fabric features UPF 50 sun protection that blocks 98% of the sun’s UV rays, and it’s entirely chemical-free. Plus, it’s machine-washable and reusable and will never lose its cooling ability. Sold by Amazon
Beautify Beauties Spray Bottle
Continually misting youth players during practices or games is a great way to help them cool off. This bottle sprays a continuous mist with a single pump and is entirely aerosol-free. It even sprays when held upside down and features total air isolation in the bottle to eliminate contamination. Sold by Amazon
Under $30
Under Armour Boys’ Tech Big Logo Short-Sleeve T-Shirt
Since it’s made of Under Armour’s Tech fabric which is moisture-wicking and quick-drying, this t-shirt wicks away sweat to keep kids cool. It has a soft, natural feel, and it’s machine-washable. As a bonus, the material is also made with recyclable and traceable polyester and re-uses five bottles per shirt. Sold by Amazon
Gatorade Non-Slip Gx Squeeze Bottles
Never run out of water during games and practice, thanks to this re-fillable Gatorade bottle. It has a custom DIY ring to write a name, a leak-proof lid and a squeezable contour lid. The best feature of this bottle is its pod piercer, which allows kids to electrolyte pods directly into their water to stay hydrated. Sold by Amazon and Dick’s Sporting Goods
Gatorade Gx Hydration Sports Drink Concentrate Pods
During hot and humid days, athletes sweat out electrolytes that are vital for hydration. With these sports drink concentrate pods, kids can replace the electrolytes they lost and recover faster. Just add it to your Gatorade Gx squeeze bottle and start the essential hydration process. Sold by Amazon
Misting Fan With Flexible Tripod
Since athletes are busy and tired, they might not have time to hold a misting fan. This option features a flexible tripod that tightly grips to chairs and canopies or can stand independently on the grass. Plus, the rechargeable battery can be charged in four hours and lasts up to six hours. Sold by Amazon
TrekProof Ice Pack Reusable Hot and Cold Therapy Gel Wrap
This three-piece ice pack set can be worn on the forehead, elbows, ankle or back to provide cooling relief. It comes with an adjustable velcro closure comfort strap that fits everyone and is covered in a skin-safe fabric. Just keep it in the freezer and take it out before practice or games on hot days. Sold by Amazon
High-end
Igloo Portable Sports Cooler Dispenser
Staying hydrated is one of the best ways to ensure kids remain cool during practice, and this cooler dispenser holds five gallons of water or Gatorade. A few features include a keeper cord that affixes the lid to the cooler, a pressure fit lid that won’t trap dirt or mold and reinforced handles for strength and durability. Sold by Amazon
Mastercanopy Durable Ez Pop-Up Canopy Tent
Even when it’s scorching, having a shady place to rest can help kids feel like it’s 10 degrees cooler. With a vent on the roof, this canopy has superior ventilation and offers 110 square feet of shade. Plus, choose from three height settings with a toggle leg adjustment that keeps fingers from getting pinched and makes it easier to unlatch. Sold by Amazon
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Washington Commanders rookie running back Brian Robinson Jr. was shot during an attempted robbery or carjacking, the NFL team said Sunday night.
The 23-year-old former Alabama player was taken to a hospital with what the team called non-life-threatening injuries. The team said in a statement staff members were with Robinson at the hospital.
Coach Ron Rivera said he had been with Robinson.
“He is in good spirits and wanted me to thank everyone for their kind words, prayers & support,” Rivera said on Twitter. “He wants his teammates to know he appreciates them all for reaching out and he loves them all & will be back soon doing what he does best.”
D.C. police reported a shooting in the northeast section of the city and said it was on the lookout for two possible suspects.
Robinson, a third-round draft pick, was was expected to start for the Commanders this season. He had been particularly impressive during training camp and preseason games, likely earning the job over incumbent Antonio Gibson.
“Brian’s been great,” offensive coordinator Scott Turner said recently. “He’s a real serious guy. Football is extremely important to him. He takes a lot of pride in being a physical runner.”
Robinson traveled with the team for its preseason finale at Baltimore on Saturday night but did not dress.
The 6-foot-1, 228-pound back rushed for 1,343 yards and 14 touchdowns last season at Alabama. The Commanders selected him with the 98th pick in the draft.
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Bismarck man accused of intending to deliver thousands of fentanyl pills
Published: Aug. 29, 2022 at 5:22 PM CDT|Updated: 19 minutes ago
BISMARCK, N.D. (KFYR) - A district court judge has set bond at $100,000 cash for a 28-year-old accused of possessing thousands of fentanyl pills.
Police say they searched two Bismarck residences Friday and found more than 3,500 fentanyl pills, 12 pounds of marijuana, and cocaine. They arrested Terrance Olson of Bismarck on possession with intent to deliver charges.
Olson is in custody at the Burleigh Morton County Detention Center. He’s set to stand trial in December.
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Military’s education benefits outweigh Biden’s student loan plan
BISMARCK, N.D. (KFYR) - Military recruiters are undeterred by President Biden’s announcement to cancel $10,000 of student loans for federal loan borrowers.
The majority of those who join the North Dakota National Guard do so in part because the Guard pays 100% of their college tuition at in-state schools. And since four years of school is more expensive than what the federal government is canceling, the military still has an advantage to help them recruit.
“The sheer amount of tuition assistance, the GI Bill, scholarships, our military scholarships. Everything is stackable with anything they do athletically or academically while they’re in high school, is going to far outweigh that,” said Andrew Tanata, Sergeant First Class with the ND National Guard.
Sergeant Tanata says even though the educational benefit is a big draw, it’s not always used because plenty of recruits find fulfilling careers in the military that don’t require a college degree.
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2022 South Dakota State Fair officially starts Thursday, Sept. 1
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (Dakota News Now) - The 2022 South Dakota State Fair officially begins Thursday, Sept. 1, 2022.
The 2022 State Fair offers a variety of entertainment and different daily discounts until Labor Day, Sept. 5.
As for entertainment, the fair is welcoming back Gold Star Amusements, there will be rides and food vendors, a bull riding station, some beer garden entertainment, and more.
Assistant Fair Manager, Candi Briley, spoke to DRG News and said there’s no shortage of free entertainment during the five-day fair.
Thursday is Value Added Ag Development Center Day, and Briley says, “We’re happy and excited to be able to have value-added back as they showcase all the value-added opportunities and businesses throughout the state, and they do some really cool things throughout the day.”
On Thursday, a cooking demo will take place, an ice cream social will be held in the afternoon, and Veterans get into the State Fair for free.
Find a complete rundown of things happening at this year’s South Dakota State Fair online at SDStateFair.Com.
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EKU head coach Walt Wells recovering after cardiac episode
RICHMOND, Ky. (WKYT) - Eastern Kentucky University named Garry McPeek the acting head football coach this afternoon, a day after head coach Walt Wells suffered a cardiac episode Sunday morning.
Wells is recovering and is stable at UK hospital.
VP and Director of EKU Athletics Matt Roan released a statement Sunday night updating the community on Wells’ status. He’s been the head coach at EKU since 2020.
Dr. Jeff Foxx explains that a cardiac episode could mean a number of things.
“The most common thing when you have a catastrophic problem is like an arrhythmia. An arrhythmia where the heart doesn’t beat right and you have sudden cardiac death. However, there are other arrhythmias,” Dr. Foxx said. “Sometimes people will just feel a little palpitation in their heart. That’s not necessarily abnormal, just the palpitation. Continuous arrhythmia that affect the heart’s function, can be a problem.”
A cardiac episode can be unexpected, but there are some things you should watch for.
“Chest pain, breathing difficulty, especially with exercise, lightheadedness or dizziness, that’s really unusual or persists. Those are things that, okay, maybe this could be cardiac,” Dr. Foxx said.
Dr. Foxx said there are a handful of things we can do every day to make sure we’re keeping our hearts healthy.
“Obviously the best way to control that is diet and exercise. But not everybody can do that. You may have a family history of cholesterol. You may have a family history of heart disease and if those things are present, you really need to know what your numbers are. What your risk is,” Dr. Foxx said.
If you don’t know what your risk is, you can calculate it online.
“Take your age and your blood pressure and you can put them into a little computer program that’s widely available on the internet and it’s called your cardiac risk profile,” Dr. Foxx said.
Experts said if your risk number is elevated, you should meet with your doctor.
The EKU football team opens their season at Eastern Michigan on Friday.
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FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — A jury acquitted a former Texas police officer of criminally negligent homicide Monday in the deadly shooting of a woman whose welfare he had been sent to check.
The Tarrant County jury deliberated about 10 hours over two days before reaching its verdict on Ravinder Singh, a former Arlington police officer indicted in the August 2019 accidental shooting of Margarita Brooks, 30.
If convicted of criminally negligent homicide, he could have been sentenced to up to two years in a state jail and fined up to $10,000.
Singh, a Fort Worth-area rookie officer at the time of the shooting, was dispatched to check on Brooks, who was seen lying in the grass behind a shopping strip. Footage from Singh’s body camera showed him walking along a sidewalk and calling out, “Hello. Are you OK?” The woman replies, “Yeah, I’m fine.” A dog approaches and the officer asks, “Is that your dog?”
As the dog runs toward him, the officer yells, “Get back!” He begins to back up and then fires three shots. The woman screams, “Oh, my God!” and continues to cry out.
People who live or work in the area said they often saw Brooks walking with her boyfriend and a dog and that the couple appeared to be homeless. The dog, a Labrador mix police said weighed about 40 pounds (18.14 kilograms), was grazed by a bullet but survived.
Singh was placed on administrative leave after the shooting and resigned three months later. | https://www.mrt.com/news/article/Ex-North-Texas-officer-acquitted-of-crime-in-17405960.php | 2022-08-29T22:44:50Z | https://www.mrt.com/news/article/Ex-North-Texas-officer-acquitted-of-crime-in-17405960.php | true |
Shares of Mondelez International Inc. Cl A
MDLZ,
-0.40%
slipped 0.40% to $62.48 Monday, on what proved to be an all-around rough trading session for the stock market, with the S&P 500 Index
SPX,
-0.67%
falling 0.67% to 4,030.61 and Dow Jones Industrial Average
DJIA,
-0.57%
falling 0.57% to 32,098.99. This was the stock's third consecutive day of losses. Mondelez International Inc. Cl A closed $6.99 short of its 52-week high ($69.47), which the company reached on January 21st.
The stock underperformed when compared to some of its competitors Monday, as Nestle S.A. ADR
NSRGY,
+0.29%
rose 0.29% to $119.35, PepsiCo Inc.
PEP,
-0.31%
fell 0.31% to $174.49, and General Mills Inc.
GIS,
+1.18%
rose 1.18% to $77.22. Trading volume (5.5 M) remained 792,433 below its 50-day average volume of 6.3 M.
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TORONTO, Aug. 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Braxia Scientific Corp. ("Braxia Scientific", or the "Company"), (CSE: BRAX) (OTC: BRAXF) (FWB: 4960), a medical research and telemedicine company with clinics providing innovative ketamine and psilocybin treatments for depression and related disorders, today announced the filing of its financial statements and management discussion and analysis for the first quarter ended June 30, 2022. Complete financial statements along with related management discussion and analysis can be found in the System for Electronic Document Analysis and Retrieval (SEDAR), the electronic filing system for the disclosure documents of issuers across Canada, at www.SEDAR.com.
"We are proud to have launched KetaMD in the U.S. so that we can begin addressing the needs of millions lacking access to innovative treatments for mental health disorders such as depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)," said Dr. Roger McIntyre, CEO, Braxia Scientific. "We have established the infrastructure and clinical best practices to ensure proven treatments, such as Ketamine, are affordable and delivered safely, securely, reliably, and quickly to achieve the best outcome for patients. As we continue to expand KetaMD across multiple U.S. states we are also committed to advancing new and innovative treatments via our clinical research trials leveraging both our digital and in-person clinics."
Providing Access to Mental Health Therapies in North America
KetaMD U.S. – Providing Ketamine for Depression, Anxiety, PTSD and Bipolar Disorder
Braxia Scientific completed the acquisition and launch of KetaMD, a new end-to-end telemedicine platform, that utilizes leading technology, provides access to safe, affordable, and potentially life-changing at-home ketamine treatments for people suffering from depression and related mental health conditions. Treatments are medically supervised, guided virtually by registered nurses with mental health expertise, and backed by the world's leading psychiatrists and researchers in depression. KetaMD's integration of ketamine and telemedicine is guided by best practices and treatment guidance.
KetaMD's innovative technology capabilities provides Braxia the opportunity to offer both patient-centric in-person and digital telehealth ketamine treatments, combined with established clinical research and development capabilities focused on the commercialization and real-world implementation of novel pharmaceuticals. Braxia plans to further augment tools and capabilities of the KetaMD platform, including planning new clinical trials in the U.S. and leveraging Braxia's growing proprietary patient dataset, with patient outcomes, to support potential future development of digital therapeutics in the management of depression and other related mental health conditions.
KetaMD is currently available in the State of Florida with a roll-out to other key states to begin in 2022.
Braxia Health Canada – Providing Access to Ketamine and Psilocybin-Assisted Therapy
Braxia Health, the Company's group of clinics, continued to see steady growth during the quarter following the opening of its Kitchener-Waterloo clinic in a growing suburb near the Greater Toronto Area in Ontario. The Company has made progress on the buildout of its new upcoming clinic in Ottawa. In Toronto the Company is working to expand capacity to support increased volumes for in-person ketamine treatments, and as the research team prepares to launch new clinical trials before the end of 2022.
Braxia Health clinics are comprised of a unique network of physicians, specialists and researchers delivering innovative, rapid acting treatments like intravenous (IV) and oral ketamine, and psilocybin for treatment resistant depression (TRD) and other mental health disorders. The high quality and timely access to innovative treatment is the differentiating factor allowing Braxia to expand its footprint rapidly and diversify its offering into experimental therapeutic clinical research programs.
To date, the Company has steadily grown its ketamine program referral network across 5 cities.
Braxia Health's research team progressed the first Phase II randomized Health Canada approved multi-dose psilocybin trial, approved July 2021 and launched November 2021. The trial is expected to be completed by December 2022. Following the preliminary positive results reported earlier this year, which reported meaningful improvements in depression severity observed (as measured by the Montgomery-Åsberg depression rating scale, MADRS), the Company expects to launch additional psilocybin-assisted trials in the coming quarters across multiple diagnostic categories.
Braxia's clinical and research capabilities, combined with a leading research team, have enabled the Company to establish and carryout research studies focused on advancing novel treatments for depression and other mental health disorders.
Braxia Health received multiple approvals from Health Canada to the Special Access Program ("SAP") to provide psilocybin-assisted psychotherapy for patients with Major Depressive Disorder outside of clinical trials.
The SAP was amended January 5th, 2022 to include access to psychedelic compounds on a case-by-case basis outside of clinical trials. Braxia Health has since received SAP approvals for additional patients.
The Company also successfully expanded its Braxia Institute training program, recruiting and training 30 medical and research staff to provide psilocybin-assisted therapy with high quality safety monitoring.
The Company's cash and cash equivalents as of June 30, 2022 was $7.68 million compared with March 31, 2022 at $8.6 million includes cash invested to fund launch of KetaMD and purchase of equipment related to build out of new clinics.
First quarter revenue increased to $0.42 million for the period ending June 30, 2022, up 13% sequentially from $0.37 million in Q4 2022 and up 2.5% from $0.41 million in the comparative prior period. The increase in revenue primarily reflects an increase in the number of treatments from the administering of ketamine at the Braxia Health clinics in Ontario.
Net loss was $0.97 million for the quarter ended June 30, 2022, compared to a net loss of $1.09 million for the three months ended June 30, 2021.
Dr. McIntyre continued, "We are executing against our strategic priorities centred on creating and increasing access to safe, affordable, ketamine treatments, and other innovative treatments, for millions impacted by mental health challenges, whether its in person through our clinics or at-home through KetaMD. Through our KetaMD platform, we plan to connect people who have inadequate access to mental healthcare services, trained specialists, physicians, and psychiatrists in their communities across the U.S. Our combined clinical and telemedical platform positions us to well to drive further innovation in clinical research and scaling of access to experimental therapeutics in this patient population."
The Company also announced it has granted stock options to certain of its directors, officers and employees to acquire an aggregate of 11,220,000 common shares of the Company. Each option is exercisable into one common share of the Company at an exercise price of $0.08 per Share, being the closing trading price of the shares on the Canadian Securities Exchange on August 26, 2022, for a five-year term expiring on August 29, 2027. Subject to certain accelerated vesting provisions and to longer vesting periods for recently hired employees, one-half of the options will vest immediately and the remaining one-half will vest 6 months after the date of the grant. For recently hired employees, one-third of the Options will vest after 6 months from their start date, one-third will vest after 12 months from their start date, and the remaining one-third will vest 18 months from their start date.
Braxia Scientific is a medical research and telemedicine company with clinics that provide innovative ketamine treatments for persons with depression and related disorders. Braxia also launched its U.S. based end-to-end telemedicine platform KetaMD, that utilizes leading technology to provide access to safe, affordable, and potentially life-changing at-home ketamine treatments for people living with depression and related mental health conditions. Through its medical solutions, Braxia aims to reduce the illness burden of brain-based disorders, such as major depressive disorder among others. Braxia is primarily focused on (i) owning and operating multidisciplinary clinics, providing treatments in-person and virtually for mental health disorders, and (ii) research activities related to discovering and commercializing novel drugs and delivery methods. Braxia seeks to develop ketamine and derivatives and other psychedelic products from its IP development platform. Through its wholly owned subsidiary, Braxia Health (formerly the Canadian Rapid Treatment Center of Excellence Inc.), operates multidisciplinary community-based clinics offering rapid-acting treatments for depression located in Mississauga, Toronto, Kitchener-Waterloo, Ottawa, and Montreal.
ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD
"Dr. Roger S. McIntyre"
Dr. Roger S. McIntyre
Chairman & CEO
The CSE has not reviewed and does not accept responsibility for the accuracy or adequacy of this release.
This news release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of applicable securities laws. All statements that are not historical facts, future estimates, plans, programs, forecasts, projections, objectives, assumptions, expectations, or beliefs of future performance are "forward-looking statements."
Forward-looking statements include statements about the intended promise of ketamine-based treatments for depression, the potential for ketamine or other psychedelics to treat other mental health conditions, the integration plans for Braxia and KetaMD, the intention to conduct further clinical trials, the expected growth of at-home telemedicine, the expected benefit and synergies of Braxia and KetaMD and the expectation to expand to areas other than Florida. Such forward- looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause actual results, events, or developments to be materially different from any future results, events or developments expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Such risks and uncertainties include, among others, the failure of ketamine, psilocybin and other psychedelics to provide the expected health benefits and unanticipated side effects, dependence on obtaining and maintaining regulatory approvals, including acquiring and renewing federal, provincial, municipal, local or other licenses and engaging in activities that could be later determined to be illegal under domestic or international laws. Ketamine and psilocybin are currently Schedule I and Schedule III controlled substances, respectively, under the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act, S.C. 1996, c. 19 (the "CDSA") and it is a criminal offence to possess such substances under the CDSA without a prescription or a legal exemption. Health Canada has not approved psilocybin as a drug for any indication, however ketamine is a legally permissible medication for the treatment of certain psychological conditions. It is illegal to possess such substances in Canada without a prescription.
These factors should be considered carefully, and readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on such forward-looking statements.
Although the Company has attempted to identify important risk factors that could cause actual actions, events or results to differ materially from those described in forward-looking statements, there may be other risk factors that cause actions, events or results to differ from those anticipated, estimated or intended. Additional information identifying risks and uncertainties that could affect financial results is contained in the Company's filings with Canadian securities regulators, including the Amended and Restated Listing Statement dated April 15, 2021 and its most recent MD&A, which are available at www.sedar.com. There can be no assurance that forward-looking statements will prove to be accurate, as actual results and future events could differ materially from those anticipated in forward-looking statements.
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FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — Max Duggan has started 29 games as TCU's quarterback and Chandler Morris had 531 yards of total offense in his only full game last fall. New Horned Frogs coach Sonny Dykes still hasn't said which of them will take the first snap in the season opener Friday night at Colorado.
TCU's initial depth chart lists Duggan or Morris as the No. 1 quarterback.
“I think we’re in a good spot,” Dykes said Monday. “Obviously, Max Duggan has a significant résumé. He has played a lot of snaps in the last three years here at TCU, has played very well. ... Chandler is the same way. You look at some of the games he played in last year, he played exceptional. So they both have experience and they both have done it.”
Dykes expects both Duggan and Morris to play in the opener, as well as Sam Jackson, the redshirt freshman who had a 77-yard completion to Taye Barber on his only pass attempt last season. The coach said he doesn't think it matters who starts.
“It's a fun group. I like the guys a lot,” Dykes said. “Sam certainly brings a different element to the room. ... I would anticipate all three of them playing, and my expectation is all three of them will play well.”
Duggan, the Iowa Gatorade player of the year and a four-star recruit before getting to TCU, has passed for 5,920 yards with 41 touchdowns and 20 interceptions in 32 games overall for the Horned Frogs. The senior has also rushed for 1,433 yards and 19 more scores.
After Duggan played with a fractured foot bone for several games last season, Morris got his first start in a 30-28 win over Big 12 champion Baylor in TCU's first game after Gary Patterson and the school mutually agreed to part ways. Morris threw for 461 yards, ran for 70 and even caught a pass. His 531 total yards were the second-most in school history, but he got hurt in the next game.
Morris, the former Oklahoma transfer, is still listed as a redshirt freshman after completing 50 of 76 passes for 717 yards and three touchdowns in his four games last year. He had a TD run for the Sooners in their Big 12 championship game victory over Iowa State in 2020.
Senior offensive lineman Steve Avila, a team captain, said the Frogs are confident in whichever quarterback is playing.
“The only thing that we really know is there is a change in voice,” Avila said.
“They all run the offense in their own ways,” Barber said. “They all bring different things to the table, and I feel they’re all positive.”
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WFO AMARILLO Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Monday, August 29, 2022
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SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
Severe Weather Statement
National Weather Service Amarillo TX
413 PM CDT Mon Aug 29 2022
...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR NORTHWESTERN ARMSTRONG...
NORTHERN RANDALL...SOUTHWESTERN CARSON AND SOUTHEASTERN POTTER
COUNTIES WILL EXPIRE AT 415 PM CDT...
The storms which prompted the warning have moved out of the area.
Therefore, the warning will be allowed to expire. However gusty
winds and heavy rain are still possible with these thunderstorms.
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WFO LUBBOCK Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Monday, August 29, 2022
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SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
Severe Weather Statement
National Weather Service Lubbock TX
419 PM CDT Mon Aug 29 2022
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 430 PM CDT
FOR NORTHEASTERN BAILEY AND NORTHWESTERN LAMB COUNTIES...
At 418 PM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located 7 miles southeast of
Muleshoe, moving south at 15 mph.
HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Expect damage to roofs, siding, and trees.
Locations impacted include...
Muleshoe and Sudan.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Blowing dust is likely ahead of this storm. Also, torrential
rainfall is occurring with this storm and may lead to flash
flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded roadways.
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of
a building.
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WFO AMARILLO Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Monday, August 29, 2022
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SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
Severe Weather Statement
National Weather Service Amarillo TX
424 PM CDT Mon Aug 29 2022
...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR SOUTHERN TEXAS AND NORTHERN
HANSFORD COUNTIES IS CANCELLED...
The storms which prompted the warning have moved out of the warned
area. Therefore, the warning has been cancelled.
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 445 PM CDT
FOR SHERMAN COUNTY...
At 424 PM CDT, severe thunderstorms were located along a line
extending from 6 miles south of Texhoma to near Stratford, moving
southwest at 20 mph.
HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts and penny size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Minor damage to roofs, siding, and trees is possible.
Locations impacted include...
Stratford and Texhoma.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.
Torrential rainfall is occurring with these storms, and may lead to
flash flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded roadways.
...FLOOD ADVISORY IS CANCELLED...
The Flood Advisory is cancelled for a portion of southeast Texas,
including the following counties, Fort Bend and Wharton.
The heavy rain has ended. Flooding is no longer expected to pose a
threat. Please continue to heed remaining road closures.
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of western Nolan County
through 515 PM CDT...
At 424 PM CDT, radar showed a strong cluster of thunderstorms over
northwestern Nolan County, near Roscoe, and moving slowly south at
15 mph.
HAZARD...Wind gusts up to 50 mph and pea size hail, along with
frequent lightning.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down small tree limbs and blow
around unsecured objects. Minor damage to outdoor objects
is possible. Heavy rainfall in a short period of time could
cause minor, localized flooding.
Sweetwater, Roscoe, Maryneal, Champion, Wastella, I-20 Near The
Nolan-Mitchell County Line, The Intersection Of Ranch Road 608 And
Highway 147 and Camp Boothe Oaks.
This includes Interstate 20 between Mile Markers 229 and 243.
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
LAT...LON 3214 10031 3220 10067 3251 10066 3251 10044
TIME...MOT...LOC 2124Z 017DEG 13KT 3242 10059
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.25 IN
MAX WIND GUST...50 MPH
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WFO LUBBOCK Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Monday, August 29, 2022
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SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
Severe Weather Statement
National Weather Service Lubbock TX
419 PM CDT Mon Aug 29 2022
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 430 PM CDT
FOR NORTHEASTERN BAILEY AND NORTHWESTERN LAMB COUNTIES...
At 418 PM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located 7 miles southeast of
Muleshoe, moving south at 15 mph.
HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Expect damage to roofs, siding, and trees.
Locations impacted include...
Muleshoe and Sudan.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Blowing dust is likely ahead of this storm. Also, torrential
rainfall is occurring with this storm and may lead to flash
flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded roadways.
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of
a building.
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Bedminster, NJ dad died taking care of family during camping trip
Adrien Hachey's final action before his death at a Pennsylvania campground was to take care of his family.
The 43-year-old from the Basking Ridge section of Bernards was reported missing when his children, ages 16, 14, 11 and 9, his girlfriend and her children woke up the morning of Aug. 21 at the private campground in Hazle in Luzerne County.
After an extensive search coordinated by Pennsylvania State Police, Hachey's body was found the next day in a small body of water near the camp.
Trooper Anthony Petroski III said that "nothing remarkable was found during the autopsy and the death is listed as accidental."
His sister, Carol Lewis, says the family has pieced together what they believe happened.
Family camping trip goes wrong
The family arrived at the camp on Aug. 20. After spending time sitting around the fire pit he enjoyed the solitude after everyone else went to sleep.
"It was his habit to put out the firepit before he went to bed for safety and then go to sleep," Lewis said. "We finally realized that since they had just gotten there they didn't have a chance to fill the water camp on the tanker. So his last act was one to protect his family to just get some water at the only source nearby. It turned out to have terrible consequences."
A hole in the lives of his family
Lewis said that her brother was very beloved and universally loved. Friends from all over the country and Canada are coming to his funeral including his best friends from 25 years ago.
Hachey was originally from Morristown and a graduate of Ridge High School. He earned an associate degree in construction management technologies from Raritan Valley Community College and was a general foreman for J.R. Prisco for 25 years.
"He loved the outdoors, loved country music, he loved motorcycles and machines. It was a passion he shared with his brothers and his dad and his sons. He was in the process of rebuilding an old truck for his son who is 16 to have once he was driving," Lewis said.
Hachey's sister said he never raised his voice and never had a bad word to say about anyone.He also made time for his family and was always there for his sons Reid, Nate, Alec, and Evan.
"They're just terrific boys and it's because of him," Lewis said.
He was also close to his "honorary" stepchildren Bella, Shamus and Kevin.
Family mourning loss of father
Lewis said his death has left a hole in the lives of his entire family but they are trying to get through it together.
"We're trying to celebrate his memory and to feel him still with us. We know he loved us very much and that everyone loved him. We'll always keep his memory close," Lewis said.
His funeral is Wednesday at Blessed Sacrament Church on Washington Valley Road in the Martinsville section of Bridgewater Wednesday at 10 a.m. Visitation is Tuesday from 2 p.m. - 4 p.m. and 6 p.m. - 8 p.m. at Gallaway & Crane Funeral Home, in the Basking Ridge section of Bedminster.
The family asked for donations to the Education Fund for Adrien Hachey’s Boys GoFundMe page.
Dan Alexander is a reporter for New Jersey 101.5. You can reach him at dan.alexander@townsquaremedia.com
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NEW YORK, Aug. 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- This press release provides shareholders of Cohen & Steers Total Return Realty Fund, Inc. (NYSE: RFI) (the "Fund") with information regarding the sources of the distribution to be paid on August 31, 2022 and cumulative distributions paid fiscal year-to-date.
In December 2011, the Fund implemented a managed distribution policy in accordance with exemptive relief issued by the Securities and Exchange Commission. The managed distribution policy seeks to deliver the Fund's long-term total return potential through regular monthly distributions declared at a fixed rate per common share. The policy gives the Fund greater flexibility to realize long-term capital gains throughout the year and to distribute those gains on a regular monthly basis to shareholders. The Board of Directors of the Fund may amend, terminate or suspend the managed distribution policy at any time, which could have an adverse effect on the market price of the Fund's shares.
The Fund's monthly distributions may include long-term capital gains, short-term capital gains, net investment income and/or return of capital for federal income tax purposes. Return of capital includes distributions paid by the Fund in excess of its net investment income and net realized capital gains and such excess is distributed from the Fund's assets. A return of capital is not taxable; rather, it reduces a shareholder's tax basis in his or her shares of the Fund. In addition, distributions from the Fund's investments in real estate investment trusts (REITs) may later be characterized as capital gains and/or a return of capital, depending on the character of the dividends reported to the Fund after year-end by REITs held by the Fund. The amount of monthly distributions may vary depending on a number of factors, including changes in portfolio and market conditions.
At the time of each monthly distribution, information will be posted to cohenandsteers.com and mailed to shareholders in a concurrent notice. However, this information may change at the end of the year because the final tax characteristics of the Fund's distributions cannot be determined with certainty until after the end of the calendar year. Final tax characteristics of all of the Fund's distributions will be provided on Form 1099-DIV, which is mailed after the close of the calendar year.
The following table sets forth the estimated amounts of the current distribution and the cumulative distributions paid this fiscal year-to-date from the sources indicated. All amounts are expressed per common share.
You should not draw any conclusions about the Fund's investment performance from the amount of this distribution or from the terms of the Fund's managed distribution policy. The amounts and sources of distributions reported in this Notice are only estimates, are likely to change over time, and are not being provided for tax reporting purposes. The actual amounts and sources of the amounts for accounting and tax reporting purposes will depend upon the Fund's investment experience during the remainder of its fiscal year and may be subject to changes based on tax regulations. The amounts and sources of distributions year-to-date may be subject to additional adjustments.
*THE FUND WILL SEND YOU A FORM 1099-DIV FOR THE CALENDAR YEAR THAT WILL TELL YOU HOW TO REPORT THESE DISTRIBUTIONS FOR FEDERAL INCOME TAX PURPOSES.
The Fund's Year-to-date Cumulative Total Return for fiscal year 2022 (January 1, 2022 through July 31, 2022) is set forth below. Shareholders should take note of the relationship between the Year-to-date Cumulative Total Return with the Fund's Cumulative Distribution Rate for 2022. In addition, the Fund's Average Annual Total Return for the five-year period ending July 31, 2022 is set forth below. Shareholders should note the relationship between the Average Annual Total Return with the Fund's Current Annualized Distribution Rate for 2022. The performance and distribution rate information disclosed in the table is based on the Fund's net asset value per share (NAV). The Fund's NAV is calculated as the total market value of all the securities and other assets held by the Fund minus the total liabilities, divided by the total number of shares outstanding. While NAV performance may be indicative of the Fund's investment performance, it does not measure the value of a shareholder's individual investment in the Fund. The value of a shareholder's investment in the Fund is determined by the Fund's market price, which is based on the supply and demand for the Fund's shares in the open market.
Fund Performance and Distribution Rate Information:
Investors should consider the investment objectives, risks, charges and expense of the Fund carefully before investing. You can obtain the Fund's most recent periodic reports, when available, and other regulatory filings by contacting your financial advisor or visiting cohenandsteers.com. These reports and other filings can be found on the Securities and Exchange Commission's EDGAR Database. You should read these reports and other filings carefully before investing.
Shareholders should not use the information provided here in preparing their tax returns. Shareholders will receive a Form 1099-DIV for the calendar year indicating how to report Fund distributions for federal income tax purposes.
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Symbol: (NYSE: CNS)
About Cohen & Steers. Cohen & Steers is a leading global investment manager specializing in real assets and alternative income, including real estate, preferred securities, infrastructure, resource equities, commodities, as well as multi-strategy solutions. Founded in 1986, the firm is headquartered in New York City, with offices in London, Dublin, Hong Kong, and Tokyo.
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Accordingly, there are or will be important factors that could cause actual outcomes or results to differ materially from those indicated in these statements. The company undertakes no obligation to publicly update or review any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new information, future developments or otherwise.
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